Thank you for uploading.......you took me back to my childhood. Beautiful memories of the 70's.....watching this movie together with Uncle Eddie and Aunt Doris. God, I miss those days.
I saw this with my dad (RIP), at the Ashton- Under-Lyne Odeon, having seen it previewed by Dickie Davies in his "Sport in the Movies" segment on "World of Sport" (one for the Brits!) and I've loved it ever since. My favourite film throughout my childhood years, it cheers my heart to see so many comments here, as no one I know has ever seen it. Also, it has to be said - great soundtrack.
For years I could not remember the name of this movie. I remembered the main actor but I could not remember his name. When I was 13 in 1977 I saw this movie at an old theatre in Inglewood California with my family. I just happened to get an old movie in my TH-cam feed today called "Our Man Flint" staring James Coburn. After all these years, I found it
One of the best and most underrated james coburn movie great aerial cinematography with a message what a father won't do to rescue his son even if is sound crazy theydon't make it like this any more everything is cgi
In first grade 1979 I broke my femur and spent a month in the hospital. I watched this movie and Greek Orthodox icon scared the heck out of me for some reason. Lol
Bullshit! There's no reason for one to be scared of Orthodox icons! Only fools, Catholics and Muslims (...and there not all of them ! At least the middle Easterns, are much closer to Greece culturally and sentimentally, than you, Catholic f...*:'"#@...ckheads!) feel this way!
The movie is just good; but I have been taken by the wonderful Greek shores and beaches but these small castles and houses are blowing my mind. Such a great civilization.
I saw this movie as a double bill on release in the UK with Avalanche Express, which was the main feature. We didn't even know it was a double bill and thought the film was probably one of those shorts that got played from time to time. Much to our surprise it was excellent and as good, if not better than the film we actually came to see.
Thanks for the upload. It brings me back when I was about 8 yrs old, I remember watching this with my father (rip) and younger brother in a cinema. I'm 52 now.
I remember seeing this movie at a theatre in Montreal and in its French version called Operation Delta. Very impressed by this exciting movie where James Coburn came back with another action one. This was done in Greece and I love Charles Aznavour's rendition of the police chief. Nice to see an action movie in Greece.
@@douglastaylor6160 Actually, this west part of Greece, not far from Albania, is called the Meteore hills and you can find several monasteries like this one sitting at the top of those. The JB one is a different one but from the same group.
Thanks for sharing this film , watched it as a kid in 1976 in the Gaumont cinema in Bristol. Should have been in school at the time , brought back good memories as I nicked the front of house stills , and I still have them .
Like many others here,I first saw this movie as a youth. The sky diving scenes blew me away, the gun battle had me on the edge of my seats. Years later (much later) I had still remember the movie. With the invention of the internet..I searched for movies by James Coburn...only to discovered this was not released on DVD...nor VHS video tape. Left the hunt for many....many..more years..until today some had link to a full length movie of a different genre. As I was in TH-cam..I decided to try
classic james coburn movie. i was first year high school when i saw this movie in 1976 in iligan city. salamat sa upload, it brought memories of times past when movies are great entertainment. salamat.
One of first movies I remember seeing as a kid.. I saw it at the drive-in theater with my mom when it came out.. All I ever remembered was the black gliders.. Thanks for posting, now I can watch it as an adult and make sense of it all, finally.. Thank you.
I saw this in the cinema on its release, when I was 11. It was the last time I can remember seeing two full-length films on one bill (the other was 'Planet of the Apes', which I liked a lot more).
I was looking for this movie, but i couldn't remember the title...so i looked under 1970's hang gliding movies and found it. When i saw this years ago i really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing this movie.
Culp is horrible but he is perfect for this. I love how the liberation army asks for 30 "grease guns." I didn't know they were called that in real. (those inexpensive 45 automatics that looked like automotive grease guns replaced the expensive tommyguns in the army. Really ugly cheap stamped steel guns but very fast to produce). Coburn is always great in these roles, like George Peppard in the A team, with the cigar and machine gun spraying out the side door of BA's van.
I remember sitting in a movie theater in Kentucky. In nineteen seventy six visiting my grandfather I was twelve years old. I came up to the movie theater washed it myself.
Thanks for posting this James Bond level action adventure film.Pretty good when I saw it.I notice the same monastery and location was used a few years later,in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, to less effect.
The "abandoned monastery" where the hostages are held is Meteora in Greece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of six monasteries built in the 16th century. It is one of Greece's most popular tourist destinations. The same monastery was used in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only filmed in 1981.
Thanks for the upload! Been searching for this one for a long time. Not really a great movie - underwritten and rather too simplistic - but it's nice to finally catch it to satisfy my curiosity. Probably been looking out for it for the best part of twenty years!!!! THANK YOU!
(Continued) my luck. Low and behold ..the full film is on TH-cam. I watched it immediately and immensely enjoyed it. To the uploader...Thank you very much for the gift. You have certainly made my day. Truly appreciate the movie
James Coburn (1928 - 2002) specialised in tough guy roles throughout his career and by the late 1960s he cultivated a "cool" persona. His career was already declining when this movie was made and it was a flop in the USA. He appeared in more than 70 films, invariably action movies. He became an acknowledged star in 1966 with the movie Our Man Flint and In Like Flint in 1967 and both were very successful although he didn't want to make any more. In 1999, he surprisingly won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Affliction which barely recovered its production budget. He continued working until his death making two movies in 2002.
Russell Grenning, I don't think it's accurate to say that his career was in decline at this point. He was still very marketable, and he was quoted as saying he was coming into the best part of his working life, a statement I doubt he would have bothered making, if it wasn't his true belief. Consider this; the year before he had co-starred with Charles Bronson in the highly acclaimed Hard Times and the year after this, I'm not at all sure that he wouldn't be correct to say, that he was the lead, out of a fantastic cast, in Peckinpah's Cross of Iron. What struck him done for about a decade soon afterwards, was the severe manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis, that made it impossible for him to work. I would say that it might be easy to be fooled by his position after the Flint films (the second one not being nearly up to the standard of the first one), as they were more a case of a formulaic expression (Bond spoof films 4 or 5 years), than one of a showcase for all his talents as an actor.
OMG, those ancient primitive hang gliders! Today's hang gliders are flying distances of nearly 500 miles on a single flight, with altitudes of 20,000 feet!
I am German Wife. See this film under the German title "Auf der Fährte des Adlers". Don`t find it anywhere. Not DVD ore VHS. Thanks you sooo much for this orginal Version. I`m very big Fan from James Coburn. I´m so sad when he die 2002!!!
Took me forever to find this movie . I found it in a store in London and had to have it transformed to American Format. Surprised no one hasn't done a Remake of this .
Wow love this must buy a DVD of it.Hang gliding probably IS much much harder to learn than how easy the pros make it look.Love the Greek folk style Music accompanying parts of it...reminds me of Escape to Athena another 70s classic,complete with mountain monastery.Wonder if the monastery in this Sky Riders was the same one as in For Your Eyes Only?Also 2 of the Scenes were used as Clips in the opening credits of the Fall Guy did you notice.
i whatch this movie with my brother broughtme good memories thank you so much for posting it still my favorite movie since then i dreamed to go sky driving even now
There are LOADS of films I'm trying to track down. Having given up on trying to find them on DVD, I browse around on TH-cam now and then and eventually unearth one of them, as in this case. A few in particular that are giving me difficulty: A Twist Of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman, based on a novel by Geoffrey Jenkins; Marco The Magnificent, an all-star historical epic from 1965 (sometimes goes by the title Kublai Khan); and The Last Grenade, an actioner from the early 70s.
James Coburn,s heart must have been bitter when his rescued son rushed to not him but stepfather . And if it had not been for the hang gliders ,she and her children would have all been executed by terrorists when the police attacked their shelter carelessly .
I am 50 now n i saw this movie only once when i was kid of about 6 of 7.... thanku for uploading
Thank you for uploading.......you took me back to my childhood. Beautiful memories of the 70's.....watching this movie together with Uncle Eddie and Aunt Doris. God, I miss those days.
Coburn was a great actor & helped make this action film enjoyable, along with great hang- gliding scenes.
I'm r.c
I saw this with my dad (RIP), at the Ashton- Under-Lyne Odeon, having seen it previewed by Dickie Davies in his "Sport in the Movies" segment on "World of Sport" (one for the Brits!) and I've loved it ever since. My favourite film throughout my childhood years, it cheers my heart to see so many comments here, as no one I know has ever seen it. Also, it has to be said - great soundtrack.
a great film from the 70s much underrated
Le sourire de James Coburn ! Many thanks
For years I could not remember the name of this movie. I remembered the main actor but I could not remember his name. When I was 13 in 1977 I saw this movie at an old theatre in Inglewood California with my family. I just happened to get an old movie in my TH-cam feed today called "Our Man Flint" staring James Coburn. After all these years, I found it
Charles Coburn. AGREAT actor..and an excellent Movie.Thank you very much,
James Coburn
Gracias por la oportunidad de ver y disfrutar la película favorita de mi familia, nuevamente. ----
One of the best and most underrated james coburn movie great aerial cinematography with a message what a father won't do to rescue his son even if is sound crazy theydon't make it like this any more everything is cgi
REALLY fantastic film. Sigh, the 70s! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Excellent movie.
No "CGI" (magnificent).
When stuntmen/women were real.
Well worth watching.
Perfect audio and video.
Thanks for the upload.
It's fun to watch and I agree about the stunts but the plot and acting are sub par to say the least.
One of the first movies I have any memory of seeing in the theater. I've wanted to see a decent version forever. Thanks a million for posting.
me too，i'm from China
In first grade 1979 I broke my femur and spent a month in the hospital. I watched this movie and Greek Orthodox icon scared the heck out of me for some reason. Lol
Bullshit! There's no reason for one to be scared of Orthodox icons! Only fools, Catholics and Muslims (...and there not all of them ! At least the middle Easterns, are much closer to Greece culturally and sentimentally, than you, Catholic f...*:'"#@...ckheads!) feel this way!
My Dad got into hang gliders and took me to see this film. Thanks Dad!
I love this movie, I seen it when first played at the theater. Thanks for having it here.
The movie is just good; but I have been taken by the wonderful Greek shores and beaches but these small castles and houses are blowing my mind. Such a great civilization.
I WENT TO SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, EXCELENT, THANK FOR SHARING.
saw this when i was 9 years old. mom was still with us. miss this
I saw this movie as a double bill on release in the UK with Avalanche Express, which was the main feature. We didn't even know it was a double bill and thought the film was probably one of those shorts that got played from time to time. Much to our surprise it was excellent and as good, if not better than the film we actually came to see.
Thanks for the upload. It brings me back when I was about 8 yrs old, I remember watching this with my father (rip) and younger brother in a cinema. I'm 52 now.
I remember seeing this movie at a theatre in Montreal and in its French version called Operation Delta. Very impressed by this exciting movie where James Coburn came back with another action one. This was done in Greece and I love Charles Aznavour's rendition of the police chief. Nice to see an action movie in Greece.
wasnt the same monastery used in a bond film
@@douglastaylor6160 Actually, this west part of Greece, not far from Albania, is called the Meteore hills and you can find several monasteries like this one sitting at the top of those. The JB one is a different one but from the same group.
Saw it when I was a small kid, one hell of an amazing movie. !!!!! Don't see anything even close today, just graphics....
Amazing movie...they don't make movies like this anymore, thank you so much for the upload!!!
Thanks for the upload. Saw it as a kid. Was mesmerized by the flying
Thanks for sharing this film , watched it as a kid in 1976 in the Gaumont cinema in Bristol. Should have been in school at the time , brought back good memories as I nicked the front of house stills , and I still have them .
You light fingered guttersnipe!
yes they would have been in colour too. if you sell them on ebay you could make a few £100s for the lot.
You guys were right! Great movie! Only movies I remember these guys in were war movies. Thanks!
James Coburn great actor love all his movies ,thanks for the video upload
We had it as VHS when when young, was playing it constantly. Brings back lots of memories.
I still have it on VHS I'm sorry but I think old video tapes are better than the current DVD
The good old days of vhs cassetes n then came betamex ...
I saw this movie in 1977,and i did enjoy it very much. Thanks for the upload bro.
Like many others here,I first saw this movie as a youth. The sky diving scenes blew me away, the gun battle had me on the edge of my seats.
Years later (much later) I had still remember the movie. With the invention of the internet..I searched for movies by James Coburn...only to discovered this was not released on DVD...nor VHS video tape.
Left the hunt for many....many..more years..until today some had link to a full length movie of a different genre. As I was in TH-cam..I decided to try
Wow, thank you what a movie. Culp and Coburn.
What a friggin stunt that is on the helicopter.
That’s really him, isn’t it?
Amazingly well done.
That was in the opening credits of The Fall Guy. Stumbled onto this movie in 2002 and saw that and said “That’s where that clip is from!”
classic james coburn movie. i was first year high school when i saw this movie in 1976 in iligan city. salamat sa upload, it brought memories of times past when movies are great entertainment. salamat.
Beautiful Athens, one of my favourite cities, I had to watch this movie……. ❤
Wow that's Aznavour... I never saw this. Thanks.
One of first movies I remember seeing as a kid..
I saw it at the drive-in theater with my mom when it came out..
All I ever remembered was the black gliders..
Thanks for posting, now I can watch it as an adult and make sense of it all, finally..
Thank you.
I first saw this movie as a kid in 1976 on a flight from California to Germany. It made the boring flight worthwhile.
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Thanks suparokdog, One of the best films I have ever seen, good suspense, and couldn't ask for a better plot.
Such a great movie! And I'm sooooo happy that it takes place in Greece! Wish even more movies would take place there in this genre! :)
I saw this in the cinema on its release, when I was 11. It was the last time I can remember seeing two full-length films on one bill (the other was 'Planet of the Apes', which I liked a lot more).
Coburn rules. Loved him as Steiner in "The Iron Cross"
Great movie..... Thank you for uploading. Seen this many, many, many years ago. Still, it is good to see a James Coburn movie.
Best movie thank you for uploading
Oh my god!!!! You have no idea how many years I have been searching for this movie! Thank you so much!!!
I was looking for this movie, but i couldn't remember the title...so i looked under 1970's hang gliding movies and found it. When i saw this years ago i really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing this movie.
Culp is horrible but he is perfect for this. I love how the liberation army asks for 30 "grease guns." I didn't know they were called that in real. (those inexpensive 45 automatics that looked like automotive grease guns replaced the expensive tommyguns in the army. Really ugly cheap stamped steel guns but very fast to produce). Coburn is always great in these roles, like George Peppard in the A team, with the cigar and machine gun spraying out the side door of BA's van.
Great movie! I've watched couple of times!
I remember this one as the featured movie during one of my plane trips with my mother to visit my grandparents in London, England.
I saw it on a plane too, somewhere between Hong Kong and London.
Never forgot it. Nice to see it again.
I remember sitting in a movie theater in Kentucky. In nineteen seventy six visiting my grandfather I was twelve years old. I came up to the movie theater washed it myself.
Thanks for a good film.
Thanks for posting this James Bond level action adventure film.Pretty good when I saw it.I notice the same monastery and location was used a few years later,in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, to less effect.
De muchos muchos años volví a ver esta película.
The "abandoned monastery" where the hostages are held is Meteora in Greece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of six monasteries built in the 16th century. It is one of Greece's most popular tourist destinations. The same monastery was used in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only filmed in 1981.
For Your Eyes Only used a different one in the same valley.
The greatest movie ever made?
unforgetable ever green movie of COBURN
Thanks for the upload! Been searching for this one for a long time. Not really a great movie - underwritten and rather too simplistic - but it's nice to finally catch it to satisfy my curiosity. Probably been looking out for it for the best part of twenty years!!!! THANK YOU!
(Continued) my luck. Low and behold ..the full film is on TH-cam. I watched it immediately and immensely enjoyed it. To the uploader...Thank you very much for the gift. You have certainly made my day. Truly appreciate the movie
I have been wanting to see this movie again for at least 22 years or more.
cool action movie ,great music by Lalo Schifrin !
Not a cuss word that I recall. Great glider work and filming. Also crazy gun action. Good old movie, and who doesn't like Chuck Colbun?!
la he buscado por decadas,,excelente film en esos años algo inverosimil hoy parece insipida para muchos,bonitos recuerdos
James Coburn (1928 - 2002) specialised in tough guy roles throughout his career and by the late 1960s he cultivated a "cool" persona. His career was already declining when this movie was made and it was a flop in the USA. He appeared in more than 70 films, invariably action movies. He became an acknowledged star in 1966 with the movie Our Man Flint and In Like Flint in 1967 and both were very successful although he didn't want to make any more. In 1999, he surprisingly won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Affliction which barely recovered its production budget. He continued working until his death making two movies in 2002.
One of his memorable roles was in "The Magnificent Seven" - remember the knife throw scene?
@@stewartw.9151 Oh yes, I sure do!
Russell Grenning, I don't think it's accurate to say that his career was in decline at this point. He was still very marketable, and he was quoted as saying he was coming into the best part of his working life, a statement I doubt he would have bothered making, if it wasn't his true belief.
Consider this; the year before he had co-starred with Charles Bronson in the highly acclaimed Hard Times and the year after this, I'm not at all sure that he wouldn't be correct to say, that he was the lead, out of a fantastic cast, in Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.
What struck him done for about a decade soon afterwards, was the severe manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis, that made it impossible for him to work.
I would say that it might be easy to be fooled by his position after the Flint films (the second one not being nearly up to the standard of the first one), as they were more a case of a formulaic expression (Bond spoof films 4 or 5 years), than one of a showcase for all his talents as an actor.
Oh yea- James Coburn baby- my hero 😘❤️
Just a great movie...👍👍👍
OMG, those ancient primitive hang gliders! Today's hang gliders are flying distances of nearly 500 miles on a single flight, with altitudes of 20,000 feet!
Splendid story ❤
I am German Wife. See this film under the German title "Auf der Fährte des Adlers".
Don`t find it anywhere. Not DVD ore VHS. Thanks you sooo much for this orginal Version.
I`m very big Fan from James Coburn. I´m so sad when he die 2002!!!
30:43
4 Chan - as long ago as that - amazing!
Took me forever to find this movie . I found it in a store in London and had to have it transformed to American Format. Surprised no one hasn't done a Remake of this .
Gotta love Coburn.
😎
I saw this in the theater when I was 12 years old. Still an entertaining little flick.
Good movie & good quality visual upload. Thanx! Esp since it was a 1967 film(?)
Great movie. thanks for sharing
Coburn was always cool. Thanks for the video.
he did drink a lot both during and after he was acting.
And smoked cigarettes . I think he died of cigarette related heart disease .
Wow love this must buy a DVD of it.Hang gliding probably IS much much harder to learn than how easy the pros make it look.Love the Greek folk style Music accompanying parts of it...reminds me of Escape to Athena another 70s classic,complete with mountain monastery.Wonder if the monastery in this Sky Riders was the same one as in For Your Eyes Only?Also 2 of the Scenes were used as Clips in the opening credits of the Fall Guy did you notice.
I have wanted to see this movie since first came out. Thank you so much for downloading it. The poster art work for this was great.
worth waiting for?
Terrific James Coburn action flick!! Thought it might be one of those *IN LIKE FLINT* capers from the olden days. I was half right.
Oh no, no, no, not watching a movie with endless aerial shots of glorious countryside!
Mummy! That was fun! I want to do it again! The little girl says something like that...leave it to kids!!
Good movie , thank you..
i whatch this movie with my brother broughtme good memories thank you so much for posting it still my favorite movie since then i dreamed to go sky driving even now
awesome loved it and thanks for the post.
Good movie worth a watch.
I'm here because of the Firearms News !
42:09 best scene. these scenes not usually shown in film these days
There are LOADS of films I'm trying to track down. Having given up on trying to find them on DVD, I browse around on TH-cam now and then and eventually unearth one of them, as in this case.
A few in particular that are giving me difficulty: A Twist Of Sand, starring Richard Johnson and Honor Blackman, based on a novel by Geoffrey Jenkins; Marco The Magnificent, an all-star historical epic from 1965 (sometimes goes by the title Kublai Khan); and The Last Grenade, an actioner from the early 70s.
edge of your seat suspense. WOW what a movie.
Very good film.....
I remember seeing this movie when I was 13 in Belgium. It was called "Commando Delta" then, I think..
I was in Korea. Title was ¨Seven Eagles¨in Korean. It reminds me
of my young age.
tommy hunt - Robert culp / james Coburn /Suzanne York cant go wrong with this line up great film
I was 9 year, I still remember this movie.. love to watch again.. thanks
umesh
AWESOME MOVIE
good movie thanks for the upload
saw this in San Bernardino, Calif. when I was in the 5th grade. I went back again the next week, this time with my parents. I guess I really loved it.
Good movie.❤
James Coburn,s heart must have been bitter when his rescued son rushed to not him but stepfather .
And if it had not been for the hang gliders ,she and her children would have all been executed by terrorists when the police attacked their shelter carelessly .
I never thought of that. You are right!
This is my first time seeing this movie 🍿🍿🍿
Best rescue mission ever staged! Wow! What fun !
Great movie 70s 🎉
haha. literally that same year my buddy and I in Rhode Island built our first hang glider.