Biggles

Year: 1986

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: English

Director: John Hough

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While leaving his 47th‑floor office for a bathroom break, fast‑food executive Jim Ferguson falls through a mysterious time portal and finds himself in 1917. He rescues Royal Flying Corps ace James “Biggles” Bigglesworth after the pilot’s photo‑recon mission is shot down. After the daring rescue, Ferguson is abruptly returned to his 1980s life, leaving him to wonder what really happened.

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Biggles: The Camels Are Coming: Meet the characters behind Biggles

A Young Royal Flying Corps Pilot Meets the Fear, Rivalry, Improvisation, and Fatal Luck of Aerial Combat over the Western Front · by W. E. Johns

Why this book?

John Hough's film takes Biggles, his First World War flying identity, comradeship, aerial skill, and German opponent Erich von Stalhein from W. E. Johns's long series, for which this first collection is the practical reading entry point. It invents modern American Jim Ferguson, a time-twin bond that pulls him into 1917, a German sound weapon, and a plot alternating between contemporary London and wartime missions. No story in The Camels Are Coming supplies that science-fiction narrative; the book establishes the pilot and aviation world the film freely repurposes.

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