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Summary

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.

Cast

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

James Staley

Lt. Commander Fleischer

Ward Costello

General Rogers

Alan Tilvern

Air Marshal Kutuzov

Oliver Cotton

Dmitri Priabin

Bernard Behrens

William Saltonstall

Richard Derr

Admiral Curtin

Woody Eney

Major Dietz

Bernard Erhard

KGB Guard

Hugh Fraser

Police Inspector Tortyev

David Gant

KGB Official

John Grillo

Customs Officer

Czeslaw Grocholski

Old Man

Neil Hunt

Richard Cunningham

Vincent J. Isaac

Sub Radio Operator

Alexei Jawdokimov

Code Operator

Wolf Kahler

KGB Chairman Andropov

Eugene Lipinski

KGB Agent

Curt Lowens

Dr. Schuller

Lev Mailer

Guard at Shower

Fritz Manes

Captain

David Meyers

Grosch

Alfredo Michelson

Interrogator

Zeno Nahayevsky

Officer at Plane

George Orrison

Leon Sprague

Tony Papenfuss

GRU Officer

Olivier Pierre

Borkh

Grigoriy Plotkin

GRU Officer

George Pravda

General Borov

John Ratzenberger

Chief Peck

Alex Rodine

Captain of the Riga

Lance Rosen

Agent

Gene Scherer

Russian Captain

Warwick Sims

Shelley

Malcolm Storry

KGB Agent

Chris Winfield

RAF Operator

John Yates

Admiral Pearson

Alexander Zale

Riga Fire Control Chief

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

KGB Agent (uncredited)

Larry Guardino

KGB Guard (uncredited)

Jeremy Coote

Russian Guard in Aircraft Hanger (uncredited)

Gideon Singer

KGB Agent (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Clint Eastwood

Novel

Craig Thomas

Screenplay

Wendell Wellman

Screenplay

Alex Lasker

Reviews

r96sk

January 30, 2022

Just good, nothing more unfortunately.

'Firefox' should be a much more entertaining and engrossing flick from 1982, but it's kinda just... there. Like, it's watchable but it really didn't do anything more for me. The 136 minute run time is a little overlong perhaps, but then if the aforementioned entertainment was there then that'd be a fine length for it to be honest.

As for the cast: Clint Eastwood is solid, though the rest of the them are a little forgettable - Warren Clarke is alright, I guess. Also, and I only noticed when skimming through the credits online, apparently John Ratzenberger is in this!

I do believe this is the first time we've seen Eastwood in a fighter jet since 1955's '<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/tarantula/" rel="nofollow">Tarantula</a>', one for all you fact fans out there. Elsewhere, the special effects have not aged well at all - I can forgive that, admittedly.

It might not be a must-watch, yet I'd say it's worth a sit through once.