Clint Eastwood is a top American fighter pilot called out of retirement and sent to the USSR to steal a new superfighter that can run rings around anything the US has, and whose weapon systems are thought controlled. Eastwood goes off to England for training and is eventually smuggled into the Soviet Union. Narrowly avoiding hordes of suspicious bureaucrats and KGB men, he steals the plane and flies it back home, with two similar fighters in hot pursuit.
Listen as Clint Eastwood speaks candidly about his thoughts on this film.
- The 'Firefox' plane was designed by John Dykstra, who had provided special effects for Star Wars, Star Trek and Moonraker.
- At $21 million, this ranks as one of Clint's most expensive films.
- ABC-TV, which usually makes big cuts to Eastwood films for television, actually added 16 minutes of footage to the film.
- The film was Clint's first as producer.
Mitchell Gant
Kenneth Aubrey
Buckholz
Pavel Upenskoy
Semelovsky
Colonel Kontarsky
General Vladimirov
Pyotr Baranovich
First Secretary
General Brown
Major Lanyev
Lt. Colonel Voskov
Natalia
Walters
Captain Seerbacker
Lt. Commander Fleischer
General Rogers
Air Marshal Kutuzov
Dmitri Priabin
William Saltonstall
Admiral Curtin
Major Dietz
KGB Guard
Police Inspector Tortyev
KGB Official
Customs Officer
Old Man
Richard Cunningham
Sub Radio Operator
Code Operator
KGB Chairman Andropov
KGB Agent
Code Operator
Dr. Schuller
Guard at Shower
Captain
Grosch
Interrogator
Leon Sprague
GRU Officer
Barkh
General Barov
Chief Peck
Captain of the Riga
Agent
Russian Captain
Shelley
Russian Guard
KGB Agent
RAF Operator
Admiral Pearson
Riga Fire Control Chief
Flight Engineer
Riga Technician
Kenneth Aubrey
Buckholz
Pavel Upenskoy
Semelovsky
Colonel Kontarsky
General Vladimirov
Pyotr Baranovich
First Secretary
General Brown
Major Lanyev
Lt. Colonel Voskov
Natalia
Walters
Captain Seerbacker
Lt. Commander Fleischer
General Rogers
Air Marshal Kutuzov
Dmitri Priabin
William Saltonstall
Admiral Curtin
Major Dietz
KGB Guard
Police Inspector Tortyev
KGB Official
Customs Officer
Old Man
Richard Cunningham
Sub Radio Operator
Code Operator
KGB Chairman Andropov
KGB Agent
Code Operator
Dr. Schuller
Guard at Shower
Captain
Grosch
Interrogator
Leon Sprague
GRU Officer
Barkh
General Barov
Chief Peck
Captain of the Riga
Agent
Russian Captain
Shelley
Russian Guard
KGB Agent
RAF Operator
Admiral Pearson
Riga Fire Control Chief
Flight Engineer
Riga Technician
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Clint Eastwood
Freddie Jones
David Huffman
Warren Clarke
Ronald Lacey
Kenneth Colley
Klaus Loewitsch
Nigel Hawthorne
Stefan Schnabel
Thomas Hill
Clive Merrison
Kai Wulff
Dimitra Arliss
Austin Willis
Michael Currie
James Staley
Ward Costello
Alan Tilvern
Oliver Cotton
Bernard Behrens
Richard Derr
Woody Eney
Bernard Erhard
Hugh Fraser
David Gant
John Grillo
Czeslaw Grocholski
Neil Hunt
Vincent J. Isaac
Alexei Jawdokimov
Wolf Kahler
Eugene Lipinski
Phillip Littell
Curt Lowens
Lev Mailer
Fritz Manes
David Meyers
Alfredo Michelson
George Orrison
Tony Papenfuss
Oliver Pierre
George Pravda
John Ratzenberger
Alex Rodine
Lance Rosen
Eugene Scherer
Warwick Sims
Mike Spero
Malcolm Storry
Chris Winfield
John Yates
Alexander Zale
Igor Zatsepin
Konstantin Zlatev
Freddie Jones
David Huffman
Warren Clarke
Ronald Lacey
Kenneth Colley
Klaus Loewitsch
Nigel Hawthorne
Stefan Schnabel
Thomas Hill
Clive Merrison
Kai Wulff
Dimitra Arliss
Austin Willis
Michael Currie
James Staley
Ward Costello
Alan Tilvern
Oliver Cotton
Bernard Behrens
Richard Derr
Woody Eney
Bernard Erhard
Hugh Fraser
David Gant
John Grillo
Czeslaw Grocholski
Neil Hunt
Vincent J. Isaac
Alexei Jawdokimov
Wolf Kahler
Eugene Lipinski
Phillip Littell
Curt Lowens
Lev Mailer
Fritz Manes
David Meyers
Alfredo Michelson
George Orrison
Tony Papenfuss
Oliver Pierre
George Pravda
John Ratzenberger
Alex Rodine
Lance Rosen
Eugene Scherer
Warwick Sims
Mike Spero
Malcolm Storry
Chris Winfield
John Yates
Alexander Zale
Igor Zatsepin
Konstantin Zlatev
Executive Producer
Producer/Director
Screenplay
Novel
Director of Photography
Editors
Music
Producer/Director
Screenplay
Novel
Director of Photography
Editors
Music
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Fritz Manes
Clint Eastwood
Alex Lasker
Wendell Wellman
Craig Thomas
Bruce Surtees
Ferris Webster
Ron Spang
Maurice Jarre
Clint Eastwood
Alex Lasker
Wendell Wellman
Craig Thomas
Bruce Surtees
Ferris Webster
Ron Spang
Maurice Jarre
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