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Firefox is a 1982 American film directed by, produced by, and starring Clint Eastwood, based on a work by Craig Thomas, who also wrote the screenplay. Bruce Surtees served as director of photography, and Maurice Jarre composed the score. The cast also includes Freddie Jones, Warren Clarke and Klaus Löwitsch.
The film addresses aviation and is set in London, with the story filmed in Austria, San Diego and Vienna. Made on a budget of $18,000,000, it earned $70,700,000 at the box office. It belongs to the action, thriller and spy genres, and was distributed by Warner Bros. and Netflix.
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6.1The 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.
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
Themes
- based on novel or book
- flying
- assault
- pilot
- kgb
- kampfjet
- fake identity
- fighter jet
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Clint Eastwood
- Screenplay by
- Alex Lasker Wendell Wellman
- Based on
- Firefox , by Craig Thomas
- Produced by
- Clint Eastwood
- Starring
- Clint Eastwood
- Cinematography
- Bruce Surtees
- Edited by
- Ron Spang Ferris Webster
- Music by
- Maurice Jarre
- Production company
- Malpaso Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- June 13, 1982 ( 1982-06-13 ) (Washington, D.C.) June 18, 1982 ( 1982-06-18 ) (U.S.)
- Running time
- 136 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English Russian
- Budget
- $21 million
- Box office
- $47 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- spy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- aviation
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Composer
- Maurice Jarre
- Producer
- Clint Eastwood
- Production company
- Malpaso Productions
- Cinematographer
- Bruce Surtees
- Narrative location
- London
- Filming location
- Vienna
- Duration
- 136
- FilmAffinity ID
- 254527
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 9 more facts
- publication date
- 1982-06-18
- title
- Firefox
- after a work by
- Craig Thomas
- distributed by
- Netflix
- different from
- Firefox
- review score
- 44/100
- capital cost
- 21000000
- box office
- 46708276
- Commons category
- Firefox (film)
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Firefox is a 1982 American action techno-thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The cast also includes Freddie Jones, Kenneth Colley, Warren Clarke, and Nigel Hawthorne. Based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Craig Thomas, Firefox is the only film appearance of Thomas's character Mitchell Gant. The film recounts Gant's mission to secretly enter the Soviet Union, hijack a cutting-edge fighter plane, and fly the aircraft back into U.S. and British hands.
Although the story is largely set in the Soviet Union, Cold War considerations meant that Eastwood's and Fritz Manes's Malpaso Company used several locations in Austria, including Vienna, for many scenes. One source states that the film was shot on a $21 million budget, the largest-ever production budget for Malpaso. Another source indicates that over $20 million was spent on special effects. The effects have been called "particularly innovative", as the "reverse bluescreen" technique was invented for the film.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Firefox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.