Firefox poster
Director Clint Eastwood
Screenplay Wendell Wellman, Alex Lasker

Firefox

Tagline: ...the most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it!

Release Date: 1982-06-18

Duration: 136 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Clint Eastwood
    Mitchell Gant
  • John Ratzenberger
    Chief Peck
  • Warren Clarke
    Pavel Upenskoy
  • Freddie Jones
    Kenneth Aubrey
  • Ronald Lacey
    Semelovsky
  • David Gant
    KGB Official
  • Hugh Fraser
    Police Inspector Tortyev
  • Nigel Hawthorne
    Pyotr Baranovich
  • Dimitra Arliss
    Natalia
  • Malcolm Storry
    KGB Agent