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Biggles is a British film of genre Science fiction directed by John Hough released in USA on 29 january 1988 with Alex Hyde-White
Biggles (1986)
Biggles: Adventures in Time
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Add to a movie listBiggles is a 1986 British sci-fi 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 time-travelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role.
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Catering salesman Jim Ferguson (Alex Hyde-White), living in the present time in New York City, falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth (Neil Dickson) after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s. With assistance from Biggles' former commanding officer Raymond (Peter Cushing) who lives in the Tower Bridge in London, Ferguson learns that he and Biggles are "time twins", spontaneously travelling through time when one or the other is in mortal danger. Together, Ferguson and Biggles fight across time and against the odds to stop the Germans changing the course of history by destroying a "Sound Weapon" with a Metropolitan Police helicopter that was stolen by Biggles while escaping a SWAT Team in 1986 London.Actors
Alex Hyde-White
(Jim Ferguson)
Fiona Hutchison
(Debbie)
Peter Cushing
(Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond)
Marcus Gilbert
(Eric Von Stalhein)
William Hootkins
(Chuck)
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