Sky Pirates, the Glossary
Sky Pirates (also known as Dakota Harris) is a 1986 Australian adventure film written and produced by John D. Lamond, and directed by Colin Eggleston.[1]
Table of Contents
38 relations: Adrian Wright, Adventure film, Alex Menglet, Alex Scott (actor), Allies of World War II, AustLit, Axis powers, Bill Hunter (actor), Brian May (Australian composer), Colin Eggleston, Court-martial, Dirty Harry, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Era, Grumman G-73 Mallard, Indiana Jones, Insubordination, John D. Lamond, John Hargreaves (actor), Leonard Maltin, Lifeboat (rescue), Mad Max, Mad Max (film), Max Phipps, Nigel Bradshaw, North American B-25 Mitchell, North American P-51 Mustang, Peter Cummins, Philadelphia Experiment, Philip Powers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roadshow Entertainment, Simon Chilvers, The Deer Hunter, The Philadelphia Experiment (film), Tommy Dysart, Washington, D.C., World War II.
- 1980s science fiction adventure films
- Australian aviation films
- Australian science fiction adventure films
- Easter Island in fiction
- English-language science fiction adventure films
- Films directed by Colin Eggleston
- Films scored by Brian May (composer)
- Films shot in Bora Bora
Adrian Wright
Adrian Wright (1 July 1947 – 28 November 2015) was an English-Australian actor remembered for his roles in the 1970s children's television series Freewheelers and the Australian serial Prisoner in which he played male nurse Neil Murray, after playing an off-duty policeman in episode 10.
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Adventure film
An adventure film is a genre of film.
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Alex Menglet
Alex Menglet, born Alexei Menglet in Moscow USSR, is an actor who has found success working in Australia.
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Alex Scott (actor)
Alex Scott (18 September 1929 – 25 June 2015) was an Australian-British television actor best known for his appearances in British television productions of the 1960s, including Special Branch, The Avengers, Danger Man, The Saint and the final episode ("The Smile Behind the Veil", 1969) of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), is the national bio-bibliographical database of Australian Literature.
Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
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Bill Hunter (actor)
William John Hunter (27 February 194021 May 2011) was an Australian actor of film, stage and television, who was also prominent as a voice-over artist.
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Brian May (Australian composer)
Brian May (28 July 1934 – 25 April 1997) was an Australian film composer and conductor who was a prominent figure during the Australian New Wave.
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Colin Eggleston
Colin Richard Francis Eggleston (23 September 1941, Melbourne – 10 August 2002, Geneva) was an Australian writer and director of TV and films.
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Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
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Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the ''Dirty Harry'' series.
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Douglas C-47 Skytrain
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.
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Era
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
Grumman G-73 Mallard
The Grumman G-73 Mallard is a medium, twin-engined amphibious aircraft.
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Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford), a fictional professor of archaeology.
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Insubordination
Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior.
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John D. Lamond
John D. Lamond (1947 – 24 October 2018) was an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.
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John Hargreaves (actor)
John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor.
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Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.
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Lifeboat (rescue)
A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers.
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Mad Max
Mad Max is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy.
Mad Max (film)
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland, based on a story by Miller and Byron Kennedy. Sky Pirates and Mad Max (film) are films scored by Brian May (composer).
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Max Phipps
Maxwell John Phipps (18 November 1939 – 6 August 2000) was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s.
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Nigel Bradshaw
Nigel William Bradshaw (born 8 May 1951) is a British-born actor, who is best known for his role as in the Australian television series Prisoner as Officer Dennis Cruickshank.
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North American B-25 Mitchell
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation.
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North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.
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Peter Cummins
Peter Cummins (born 2 June 1931) is an Australian retired character actor of stage and screen and chorister who was especially prominent in the 1970s and appeared in some of the most famous Australian films of the period.
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Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, some time around October 28, 1943.
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Philip Powers
Philip Powers (born 1963) is a record producer - and author - specialising in film scores and classical music.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.
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Roadshow Entertainment
Roadshow Entertainment (formerly known as Roadshow Home Video from 1982–1993) is an Australian home video, production and distribution company that is a division of Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment) that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand.
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Simon Chilvers
Simon Chilvers (born 5 April 1939) is an English-born, Australia-based television actor.
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The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War.
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The Philadelphia Experiment (film)
The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 American science fiction film.
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Tommy Dysart
Thomas Gibson Dysart (24 December 1935 – 7 June 2022) was a Scottish-born Australian actor, known for his appearances on television dramas and comedies and in character roles in films and miniseries.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
1980s science fiction adventure films
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985 film)
- 2010: The Year We Make Contact
- Alien Terminator (1988 film)
- Alien from L.A.
- Aquanauts (film)
- Biggles (film)
- Curse of Snakes Valley
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- Day of Wrath (1985 film)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Enemy Mine (film)
- Flight of the Navigator
- G.I. Joe: The Movie
- Heavy Metal (film)
- Inseminoid
- Island of Rusty General
- Lilac Ball
- Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
- Mr. India (1987 film)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)
- Short Circuit (1986 film)
- Sky Pirates
- Solarbabies
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Supergirl (1984 film)
- The Abyss
- The Adventures of Monica and Friends
- The Adventures of the Elektronic
- The Blue Yonder
- The Knight of the Dragon
- The Lawless Land
- The Secret of the Sword
- The Witches Cave
- Tron
- Wheels of Fire (film)
- Zone Troopers
Australian aviation films
- A Thousand Skies
- Airhawk
- Around the World in 80 Days (1988 film)
- Australia Has Wings
- Danny Deckchair
- Half a World Away (miniseries)
- Love Is in the Air (2023 film)
- R.A.A.F. Eagles Over New Guinea
- Sky Pirates
- Smithy (1946 film)
- South West Pacific (film)
- Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
- Stealth (film)
- The Castle (1997 Australian film)
- The Flying Doctor
- The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
- The Old Bus
- The Riddle of the Stinson
- The Secret of the Skies
- Wings of Destiny
Australian science fiction adventure films
- Arrowhead (2015 film)
- Jupiter Ascending
- My Pet Dinosaur
- Sky Pirates
- Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
- The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Easter Island in fiction
- Dimension W
- OutRunners
- Sky Pirates
English-language science fiction adventure films
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)
- Alien from L.A.
- Arrowhead (2015 film)
- Barbarella (film)
- Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere
- Dinosaur Island (1994 film)
- Dune: Part Two
- Flight of the Navigator
- Playmobil: The Movie
- Rim of the World
- See You Yesterday
- Sky Pirates
- Spaceways
- The Electric State
- The Flame Barrier
- The Lawless Land
- The Mothership
- Two Lost Worlds
- Unknown World
Films directed by Colin Eggleston
- Body Business
- Cassandra (film)
- Fantasm Comes Again
- Innocent Prey
- Long Weekend (1978 film)
- Outback Vampires
- Sky Pirates
- The Little Feller
Films scored by Brian May (composer)
- A Slice of Life (1983 film)
- Blind Side (1993 film)
- Bloodmoon (1990 film)
- Breakfast in Paris
- Cloak & Dagger (1984 film)
- Dead Sleep
- Death Before Dishonor (film)
- Dr. Giggles
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
- Frog Dreaming
- Gallipoli (1981 film)
- Harlequin (film)
- Hurricane Smith (1992 film)
- Innocent Prey
- Kitty and the Bagman
- Mad Max (film)
- Mad Max 2
- Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
- Nightmares (1980 film)
- Patrick (1978 film)
- Race for the Yankee Zephyr
- Roadgames
- Sky Pirates
- Snapshot (film)
- Steel Dawn
- The Killing of Angel Street
- The Last Outlaw (miniseries)
- The Survivor (1981 film)
- The True Story of Eskimo Nell
- Thirst (1979 film)
- Turkey Shoot (1982 film)
Films shot in Bora Bora
- Bora Bora (1968 film)
- Couples Retreat
- Hurricane (1979 film)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
- Sky Pirates
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- XXX (2002 film)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Pirates
Also known as Dakota Harris, Sky Pirates: Original Soundtrack Recording.