Alan Polonsky, Alex Hyde-White, Daniel Flynn

Up-and-coming advertising employee Jim Ferguson (Alex Hyde-White) is inexplicably transported back in time to the dangerous front lines of World War I. Struggling to understand what's happening to him...( read more  read more... ), he discovers that he's the "time twin" of a leading flying ace, Capt. James Bigglesworth (Neil Dickson). As he continues to bounce back and forth between the present and the past, Jim helps Biggles tackle a new weapon from Germany.

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PG, 92 min.

Directed by: John Hough

Release Date: December 31, 1986

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DVD Release Date: June 22, 2004

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  • March 12, 2009
    Not helped by having a very silly and unheroic name (Biggles?!! Seriously!), not to mention a godawful 80's synthesised soundtrack - it's clear to see why this film has always remained unknown, and yet beneath all that is a rather ripping WWI, sc-fi yarn that ignores every time t...( read more)ravel paradox, and comes up with some classic lines such as "Excuse me chaps, would you mind surrendering?". And it has Peter Cushing (complete with pet Raven) being great. A really rather fun romp, what ho and tally, that everyone should make time to watch, what.
  • June 24, 2008
    My brother and I loved this as kids
  • May 2, 2008
    The movie BIGGLES:ADVENTURES IN TIME is a rather odd movie to try and review. All logic says that the movie should be soundly panned - a low budget time travel movie about two "time twins" who bounce back and forward between 1980s New York and London and the Western Front in the ...( read more)French trenches of World War I whenever the other is in mortal peril.
    Though the movie has plenty moments that make you cringe - the `old boy attitude' of the British flyers in WWI, the dated fashions of the 1980s and some of the most awe inspiringly terrible dialogue and dialogue deliveries in recent years. Yet in spite of it all this movie also has a certain amount of charm and there are a number of times in which you cannot help but feel seduced by the Boy's Own adventure of it all.
    Drawing its inspiration from a series of Biggles novels by British author Capt. W.E. Johns, the movie is really the story of American celebrity dinners CEO Jim Ferguson (played by Alex Hyde-White). Following a visit from a mysterious elderly Englishman (played by Peter Cushing in his last movie), Ferguson finds himself transported back to World War One France where he meets British flying ace Biggles, whose Sopwith Camel bi-plane crashes nearby.
    It becomes apparent that Ferguson must help Biggles complete his mission to destroy a German sound machine, a technology that could lead to Germany winning the war (one wonders why Germany didn't simply build more than one). The young cast are quite good in their roles, the music is serviceable and there is some very nice biplane dogfight scenes between Biggles and his archenemy Von Stalhein.
    Faithful only in spirit to the Johns books, this movie was obviously meant to be the start of a franchise as evidenced by the ending, but that never transpired. This movie has its moments and for time-travel fans it will fill a nice couple of hours, but it's a movie where its parts are better than the whole. A true guilty pleasure.
  • October 25, 2007
    Somewhat ridiculas family adventure. Bringing to life Uk school boy world war one hero biggles with a mix of a side kick of a rather silly new york advertising business men, straight from the snoby 80s. It does'nt always work and looks dated, but the...(read more)re is a original...( read more)ity which keeps it fun.
  • October 4, 2007
    god, they changed alot history in this movie and it was so cliche?, but it was watchable
  • May 28, 2007
    ha biggles rythms wiht wiggles. haha
  • May 13, 2007
    Huge cheesy 80's fun. Brilliant
  • April 17, 2007
    nahhh its all about miggles

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