Movie Cosmos - Firefox | Movie Cosmos

Description:

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.

Top 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

Klaus Löwitsch

As General Vladimirov

Nigel Hawthorne

As Pyotr Baranovich

Stefan Schnabel

As First Secretary

Thomas Hill

As General Brown

Clive Merrison

As Major Lanyev

Kai Wulff

As Lt. Colonel Voskov

Dimitra Arliss

As Natalia

Austin Willis

As Walters

Michael Currie

As Captain Seerbacker

James Staley

As Lt. Commander Fleischer

Ward Costello

As General Rogers

Alan Tilvern

As Air Marshal Kutuzov

Oliver Cotton

As Dmitri Priabin

Bernard Behrens

As William Saltonstall

Richard Derr

As Admiral Curtin

Woody Eney

As Major Dietz

Bernard Erhard

As KGB Guard

Hugh Fraser

As Police Inspector Tortyev

David Gant

As KGB Official

John Grillo

As Customs Officer

Czeslaw Grocholski

As Old Man

Neil Hunt

As Richard Cunningham

Vincent J. Isaac

As Sub Radio Operator

Alexei Jawdokimov

As Code Operator

Wolf Kahler

As KGB Chairman Andropov

Eugene Lipinski

As KGB Agent

Curt Lowens

As Dr. Schuller

Lev Mailer

As Guard at Shower

Fritz Manes

As Captain

David Meyers

As Grosch

Alfredo Michelson

As Interrogator

Zeno Nahayevsky

As Officer at Plane

George Orrison

As Leon Sprague

Tony Papenfuss

As GRU Officer

Olivier Pierre

As Borkh

Grigoriy Plotkin

As GRU Officer

George Pravda

As General Borov

John Ratzenberger

As Chief Peck

Alex Rodine

As Captain of the Riga

Lance Rosen

As Agent

Gene Scherer

As Russian Captain

Warwick Sims

As Shelley

Malcolm Storry

As KGB Agent

Chris Winfield

As RAF Operator

John Yates

As Admiral Pearson

Alexander Zale

As Riga Fire Control Chief

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

As KGB Agent (uncredited)

Larry Guardino

As KGB Guard (uncredited)

Jeremy Coote

As Russian Guard in Aircraft Hanger (uncredited)

Gideon Singer

As KGB Agent (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Clint Eastwood

Director, Producer

Craig Thomas

Novel

Alex Lasker

Screenplay

Wendell Wellman

Screenplay

Fritz Manes

Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager

Maurice Jarre

Original Music Composer

Ron Spang

Editor

Ferris Webster

Editor

Bruce Surtees

Director of Photography

Edward Aiona

Property Master

Marion Dougherty

Casting

Mary Selway

Casting

Elayne Barbara Ceder

Art Direction

John Graysmark

Art Direction

Beala Neel

Art Direction

Ernie Bishop

Set Decoration

Christina Smith

Makeup Artist

Thomas Riccabona

Assistant Art Director

Joe Acord

Construction Coordinator

Michael Speaker

Scenic Artist

Bub Asman

Sound Effects Editor

Robert G. Henderson

Sound Effects Editor

Alan Robert Murray

Sound Effects Editor

Rick Alexander

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Les Fresholtz

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Arthur Piantadosi

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Karl Baumgartner

Special Effects

Chuck Gaspar

Special Effects

Michael Kelly

Visual Effects Editor

Jack N. Green

Camera Operator

John R. Shannon

Still Photographer

Glenn Wright

Costume Supervisor

Donald Harris

Music Editor

H. William Miller

Transportation Coordinator

Lloyd Nelson

Script Supervisor

Marco Barla

Unit Publicist

Paul Hitchcock

Associate Producer

Dieter Meyer

Production Manager

Steve Perry

Unit Production Manager

John Davis

Best Boy Grip

Reviews:

r96sk (7/10)

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 'Tarantula', 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.

2022-01-30