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Firefox
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
1982 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 136 min · Science Fiction · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
...the most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it!
Crew
- Screenplay: Alex Lasker, Wendell Wellman
- Cinematography: Bruce Surtees
- Edited by: Ron Spang, Ferris Webster
- Music: Maurice Jarre
- Produced by: Clint Eastwood
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Mitchell Gant
- Freddie Jones as Kenneth Aubrey
- David Huffman as Captain Buckholz
- Warren Clarke as Pavel Upenskoy
- Ronald Lacey as Semelovsky
- Kenneth Colley as Colonel Kontarsky
- Klaus Löwitsch as General Vladimirov
- Nigel Hawthorne as Pyotr Baranovich
- Stefan Schnabel as First Secretary
- Thomas Hill as General Brown
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English
- Studios: Malpaso Productions
- Budget: $18,000,000
- Box office: $70,700,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, flying, assault, pilot, kgb, kampfjet, fake identity, fighter jet
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