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.
Practical Effects
Gigantic full-scale jet mockups that absolutely committed
Direction
Eastwood's paranoid pacing—every glance feels watched
Sound
The thought-controlled weapons system whooshes are *chef's kiss*
Director
Clint Eastwood
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'thought-controlled' cockpit required Eastwood to learn elaborate hand-twitching choreography since actual neural interfaces weren't exactly 1982-ready.
This was Eastwood's most expensive film at $18 million—largely blown on that massive Firefox prop that now lives in a Wisconsin aviation museum, rusting gloriously.
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