Biggles: Adventures in Time

Biggles is a 1986 British scifi adventure film directed by John Hough and later released in 1988 in the United States as Biggles Adventures in Time. The plot involves a time traveller from the 1980s who is inserted into World War I to help the character Biggles from the series of novels by W. E. Johns and where Biggles also travels to the 1980s to fight timetravelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex HydeWhite and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role.

The film was produced by Yellowbill Films, a company set up in 1979 by British producer Kent Walwin, and one of its first acquisitions was the rights to the Biggles character. Additional financing came from a subsidiary of Hammer Films, Tambarle Ab Ltd, and Heath Financial Services, a group of insurance brokers, which the film is copyrighted by. In 1988, Compact Yellowbill Ltd was set up, a company 5050 owned by Kent Walwin and the other producer, Pom Oliver, and the films production credit was changed to that.The original script called for an adventure film in the mould of Raiders of the Lost Ark and would have been much more faithful to Johns original novels. During scriptwriting, however, Back to the Future was released and became a major hit, so the script was duly altered to follow this trend, in an attempt to capitalise on Back to the Futures popularity. ........

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