Firefox
...the most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it!
1982 · 2h 16m · PG
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Clint Eastwood Director
- 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
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