Sky Riders

Sky Riders also known as Assault on the Forbidden Fortress is a 1976 American action film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York and Robert Culp. A woman and her children are kidnapped in Athens and held in a mountaintop monastery as hostages by a revolutionary terrorist movement. A rescue operation is mounted using hang gliders. The rescue sequences were filmed in Meteora in Greece where the finale of the later James Bond film For Your Eyes Only was set.

The wife, Ellen Susannah York, of an international industrialist Robert Culp and her two children are kidnapped from their Athens home by a terrorist group and taken to an abandoned monastery on an imposing, needleshaped island. Jim McCabe James Coburn, Ellens exhusband hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorists mountain top lair.Films producer Sandy Howard and Terry Morse Jr. were imprisoned in Greece for an explosion on the set of Sky Riders, when a Greek electrician died. They had to bribe Greek officials so the crew member responsible would not be imprisoned by the military regime. ........

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