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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Biggles

Tagged: Film.

(vt Biggles: Adventures in Time; vt Biggles Gets Off the Ground) UK movie (1986). Universal/Compact Yellowbill/Tambarle. Pr Pom Oliver, Kent Walwin. Exec pr Adrian Scrope. Dir John Hough. Spfx David Harris. Screenplay John Groves, Walwin. Based on characters created by W E Johns (1893-1968). Novelizations Biggles: The Untold Story * (1986) by Peter James; Biggles: The Movie * (1986) by Larry Milne. Starring Peter Cushing (Commodore William Raymond), Neil Dickson (Biggles), Daniel Flynn (Ginger), Marcus Gilbert (Erich von Stalhein), Francesca Gonshaw (Marie), William Hootkins (Chuck), Fiona Hutchinson (Debbie), Alex Hyde-White (Jim Ferguson), James Saxon (Bertie), Michael Siberry (Algy). 92 mins. Colour.

Present-day fast-foods entrepreneur Ferguson is a time-Twin of the World War I fighter ace Biggles, as he discovers through a series of Timeslips. He is prepared to dismiss this as Hallucination until ancient RAF Commodore Raymond persuades him that the aid he gives/gave to Biggles in destroying a German secret weapon is/was important if the present is to be preserved. At last Biggles and the weapon are brought into the present, where the weapon is destroyed. Biggles is rather flatly scripted and feels like Spielberg-on-the-cheap, yet has interest because of its notion of travel not only through Time (see also Time Travel) but from the mundane into a created Alternate Reality, and vice versa. [JG]



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