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3	''Dakota Harris'' a.k.a. ''SkyPirates'' is a 1986 adventure movie directed by Colin Eggleston, and written by John Lamond and Robert Mowbray. Creator/JohnHargreaves stars as a World War II pilot in the Pacific Theatre who gets lost in the BermudaTriangle. The remainder of the film involves unravelling the mystery surrounding an alien object that enables the user to travel through time.
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6	!!Tropes seen in this film:
7	%%* ActionGirl: Melanie Mitchel (Meredith Philips)
8	* AdventurerOutfit: Of the pilot variety: leather jacket, sheepskin boots and military cap.
9	* AncientArtifact: The MacGuffin is an object of extraterrestrial origin.
10	* AwesomeAussie: Harris can fly a plane, hold his nerve against a whole bar room full of bad guys, and beat up thugs when standing on the hood of a moving car.
11	* BadGuyBar: Harris visits a bar where the criminal underworld hangs out, and is forced by the patrons to play RussianRoulette.
12	* BritishNazis: Savage (Max Phipps) is an agent of the Germans, and wears an SS uniform at the end.
13	* TheBrute: Harris gets into a brawl with a huge enemy agent with the BaldOfEvil.
14	* CoolCar: The 1941 Ford staff car which would have been almost brand new at the time.
15	* CoolPlane:
16	** The Douglas DC-3 Dakota flown by Harris.
17	** The brightly painted stunt biplane that Harris later steals to escape the court martial.
18	* DieselPunk: Focusing on an alternative World War II, time travel, and lost alien technology.
19	* {{Expy}}: Harris is an adventurer in the mould of Indiana Jones, right down to having a US state[[note]]Kind of[[/note]] for a first name.
20	* EvilBrit: RAF Major Savage seems to want Harris dead.
21	* HellBentForLeather: Harris wears a sheepskin flight jacket.
22	* HollywoodNatives: Complete with BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins, and a dugout canoe.
23	* NoSwastikas: Justified, because the Pacific Theatre was outside the Nazis' sphere of operations.
24	* PreacherMan: Melanie's father Reverend Mitchell (Simon Chilvers) is a missionary.
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