# What's the name of a old war movie

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**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/whats-the-name-of-a-old-war-movie/6300 "2024-03-19T09:58:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/whats-the-name-of-a-old-war-movie/6300/1 "2024-03-19T09:58:10Z")

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Hi,  
I’ll really appreciate the help.  
In Bulgaria the movie was aired by the name “The Plane Fortress” - Obviously not the real one. The story started like a spaghetti western. The guys robbed a bank (or tried to). Then they were send to Europe to fight (I guess WW2). There they get into a very funky fly fly group. The Germans had a secret project - A Flying Fortress - Very big Zeppelin. I remember that there were guns from the crosses in the blimp section. Our guys at one point even landed on the top of the zeppelin and spoke with German commander that they will blow the zeppelin with dynamite. In the end there was a big air battle. There was this moment that the chief of the group was shot down by ripping his wings and he deployed retractable… wings from his plane and crashed the zeppelin by his plane.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/whats-the-name-of-a-old-war-movie/6300/2 "2024-03-19T10:00:38Z")

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“Sky Bandits” (1986), also known as “Gunbus”

Quotes from the below Wikipedia plot:  
“Caught after a series of dynamite-fuelled **bank robberies in the dying days of the Old West** , Barney (Scott McGinnis) and Luke (Jeff Osterhage) are forced into conscription in a US unit being sent to the trenches in France **in the middle of World War One.** ”  
“They succeed in flying the plane, getting lost and briefly glimpsing **a huge experimental German airship** hidden in the clouds.”

IMDb page:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091963/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091963/)

Detailed Wikipedia plot summary here:

> **[Sky Bandits (1986 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Bandits_(1986_film))**
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> Sky Bandits, also known as Gunbus, is a 1986 British adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Flying Corps flying early warplanes called gunbuses.
> The film was directed by Zoran Perisic and made extensive use of the Zoptic technique he had developed for the flying sequences on Superman (1978). The production holds the record for the largest film crew on a fiction film (582).\[citation needed\]
> Caught after a seri...

You can watch the full movie on YouTube here:

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9bcbe449e72078117dc652e8ce09650dde653833.jpeg "Gunbus AKA Sky Bandits | Full Movie | Action, Western, Comedy | Scott McGinnis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjMQvFr-2Q)