Firefox (1982)

Regisseur:

Clint Eastwood

Drehbuchautoren:

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

Premierendatum:

18. Juni 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Sci-Fi

Werbezeile:

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:

U Boat | Aerial Combat | Mind Control | Underground | Hyper Speed

Nutzerkommentare:

Something different for Eastwood

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Firefox (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

136 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.20 : 1

Tonverfahren:

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

Altersfreigabe:

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

Drehorte:

Cut Bank, Montana, USA

Firma:

Malpaso Company, The

Dies und das:

Prior to the release of the movie, the cover art for the novel "Firefox" showed an aircraft similar to a MiG-25 Foxbat. After the release of the movie, the cover art was updated to reflect the design of the movie version of the aircraft. There really is a MiG-31, and it's a modified version of the MiG-25.

Pannen:

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.

Dialogzitate:

Buckholz: [learning false news that Gant was shot down] Well I guess that's it. We might as well all go home.
Kenneth Aubrey: We don't know that he was shot down.
Buckholz: The hell we don't know! You tell me. An explosion over the Kara gulf, Wire COM hears it! Our reconnaissance planes report it!
Kenneth Aubrey: WE DON'T KNOW!! He's lost.
Buckholz: Really? Then what was all that coded stuff we intercepted between Bilyarsk and the Fire chain stations? They got him, Aubrey! They blew his ass right out of the sky!
Kenneth Aubrey: I don't know. It could mean they didn't get him. Admiral, I think that we should notify Mother 1 to begin transmitting the signals
[...]

Querbezüge:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Clint Eastwood: Director (1982) (TV)

Something different for Eastwood

Firefox isn't your usual Eastwood film, he's almost branching out into Star Wars territory here with this Sci-Fi heavy Cold War Spy thriller. The effects like every 80's film have dated badly but for a movie made in 1982 they are rather good. Eastwood directs himself in what is a pretty average performance by his own high standards. The majority of the cast is made up by British character actors. Warren Clarke is really good but Freddie Jones and Nigel Hawthorne are pretty hammy. Also Raiders of the Lost Ark fans can spot Ronald Lacey playing Semelovsky a Jewish scientist. The first half of the film is a spy thriller and can be pretty nail biting at times as Clint gets his papers checked at regular intervals. Also he's suffering from the same post Vietnam War disorder that John Rambo had in First Blood and that really adds to the tension. The second half is more like Star Wars and is really great stuff. So better ice up at a cold one and enjoy Firefox for what it is, Cold War entertainment at it's best.