Firefox (1982)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Writers:

Craig Thomas (novel)
Alex Lasker (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

18 June 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

His job...Steal it.

Plot:

A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink

Plot Keywords:

Soviet Union | Jet Fighter | Fighter Plane | Russia | Refueling

Cast

Clint Eastwood	...	Mitchell Gant
Freddie Jones	...	Kenneth Aubrey
David Huffman	...	Captain Buckholz
Warren Clarke	...	Pavel Upenskoy
Ronald Lacey	...	Semelovsky
Kenneth Colley	...	Colonel Kontarsky
Klaus Löwitsch	...	General Vladimirov
Nigel Hawthorne	...	Pyotr Baranovich
Stefan Schnabel	...	First Secretary
Thomas Hill	...	General Brown
Clive Merrison	...	Major Lanyev
Kai Wulff	...	Lt. Colonel Voskov
Dimitra Arliss	...	Natalia
Austin Willis	...	Walters
Michael Currie	...	Captain Seerbacker

Runtime:

136 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Spain:T | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | USA:PG (certificate #26725) | West Germany:16 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1982) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Cut Bank, Montana, USA

Company:

Malpaso Company, The

Trivia:

A total of nine models of the Firefox were built. Six were used as miniatures for filming, two actually flew, and one was built to full-scale specifications. Several flying shots were later reused in Back to the Future Part II (1989).

Goofs:

Factual errors: There're no lavatories for the public in Moscow metro. Original 80's Moscow metro trains are also much older then the ones in the movie.

Quotes:

Air Marshal Kutuzov: You had considered, First Secretary, that this could all be an elaborate bluff by the Americans to distract us from looking to the north, while this single aircraft attempts to escape to the south?
First Secretary: No, Kutuzov, the Americans are simply paying the price for too many years of softness - paying with an act of desperation such as this one.
Air Marshal Kutuzov: You are absolutely certain?
First Secretary: I am certain. They know the potential of this aircraft; they know what it means. I would imagine that, had our positions been reversed, we might have acted similarly.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) (V)

*12

In this miserable, slow paced spy movie, Clint Eastwood plays an ex-Vietnam Vet who is hired to go to Russia and steal a war plane known as Firefox. To help him, he must pass on different identities and be accompanied by other Russians. When he finally flies the firefox, the movie features some incredible special effects and there are few good action scenes before that, but there are several scenes when people just keep talking and the flying scenes are interupted by people talking on land.