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Screenplay Nick Thiel, Paul F. Edwards
Director David Green

Fire Birds

Tagline: The best just got better

Release Date: 1990-05-25

Duration: 85 minutes

Synopsis

A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a cartel leader, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.

Casting

  • Nicolas Cage
    Jake Preston
  • Tommy Lee Jones
    Brad Little
  • Sean Young
    Billie Lee Guthries
  • Marshall R. Teague
    Doug Daniels
  • Mary Ellen Trainor
    Janet Little
  • Peter Onorati
    Rice
  • J.A. Preston
    General Olcott
  • Cylk Cozart
    Dewar Proctor
  • Robert Lujan
    Steward Rives
  • Dale Dye
    A.K. McNeil