Firefox | Stealing the Soviet MiG-31 Fighter Jet | Warner Classics

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @Hansprivate
    @Hansprivate Месяц назад +817

    I honestly think Firefox is one of Eastwood’s most underrated films.

    • @seancowhie6951
      @seancowhie6951 Месяц назад +8

      Not underatted

    • @dcstrng1
      @dcstrng1 Месяц назад +14

      Yep, I drag it out every couple of years -- it's an action movie to be sure with a major Hollywood spin; but has a good story in case anyone sorta remembers the cold war... when it was truly cold

    • @sheldonnash660
      @sheldonnash660 Месяц назад +7

      I love it

    • @andywakeman3395
      @andywakeman3395 Месяц назад +16

      I wish they had made the follow up to the book 'Firefox Down'

    • @smgdfcmfah
      @smgdfcmfah Месяц назад +7

      I agree. People born after 1980 don't have a concept of the cold war and what it was about. I showed this to my adult nephew (he's a combat vet in his forties but born in 1982) and he thought the movie was terrible. He just didn't seem to appreciate that back then the Soviet Union really was a scary place to be if you were a foreign agent. All the build up of Clint dealing with the KGB shadows and agents before he gets the plane was completely lost on him. When I was kid watching this in the theater I found it quite a thriller before it became an action film!

  • @EnglishMagic777
    @EnglishMagic777 Месяц назад +1165

    I actually went to the movies with my wife (RIP) to watch this in Los Angeles when it first came out. Loved it then. Love it now more than forty years later.

    • @carypyke935
      @carypyke935 Месяц назад +77

      I'm so sorry for your loss.. same here.

    • @em23
      @em23 Месяц назад +28

      I saw this in la..at the Sherman oaks galleria when it came out

    • @larryh6934
      @larryh6934 Месяц назад +24

      @@carypyke935Love lives on forever. ❤❤

    • @陈大侠-c6q
      @陈大侠-c6q Месяц назад +8

      I watched on the TV ,but I loved it just like your guys😊

    • @andyreggio4250
      @andyreggio4250 Месяц назад +22

      When movies were actually good

  • @BoilersRock
    @BoilersRock Месяц назад +420

    This movie convinced me to download and install the Firefox browser.

    • @utwonics
      @utwonics Месяц назад +7

      woow good one

    • @knerduno5942
      @knerduno5942 Месяц назад +8

      Yes, because they have become just as oppressive as the Soviets

    • @BoilersRock
      @BoilersRock Месяц назад

      @@knerduno5942 Now just a minute....!

    • @John_Ridley
      @John_Ridley Месяц назад

      @@knerduno5942 Firefox is the not oppressive one. Chrome is the one keeping you from installing the good extensions (like ad blockers)

    • @photoholohan
      @photoholohan Месяц назад +1

      😅

  • @francishodge320
    @francishodge320 Месяц назад +40

    My brother loved this brilliant underrated 80s classic Clint Eastwood film
    Firefox back in the day
    Even in 2024
    Timeless gem

  • @Hungryman97sCollectibles
    @Hungryman97sCollectibles Месяц назад +379

    You are in command now Admiral Piett!

    • @willc1294
      @willc1294 Месяц назад +9

      @@Hungryman97sCollectibles lol more likely a firing squad here

    • @andyh.6317
      @andyh.6317 Месяц назад +5

      Another awesome film, TESB!

    • @lizardkingwalking
      @lizardkingwalking Месяц назад +13

      Everyone can get promoted if you are under the guy who came out of light speed too close to a targeted star system.

    • @samuelcarrasquillo4590
      @samuelcarrasquillo4590 Месяц назад +10

      "Thank You Lord Vader."

    • @30AndHatingIt
      @30AndHatingIt Месяц назад +11

      He is as clumsy as he is stupid…

  • @arbiterclan
    @arbiterclan Месяц назад +227

    This scene is so emotional - just like the book ; all is lost, everyone shot, but in the moment of total despair just before death, Baranovich looks and with a last breadth sees Grant in the pilot suit walking and dies knowing they will likely succeed - I love how the music changes and goes quiet - just epic - gets me every time!

    • @matthewpaulden9604
      @matthewpaulden9604 Месяц назад +2

      😂so agree ..gets me every time

    • @TheNoseman1
      @TheNoseman1 Месяц назад +8

      Actually, in the book, Baranovich never knew that Gant made it to the plane. He died before he got to the plane. The movie added this fact to make the emotional connection more complete.

    • @BJ-bd5fc
      @BJ-bd5fc Месяц назад +1

      The tension and acting are very underrated throughout the movie. That scene you mentioned has it all.

    • @pravinshingadia7337
      @pravinshingadia7337 29 дней назад +3

      Agree - watched this decades ago and still remember the scene where he died just after seeing the plane fly overhead knowing they succeeded

    • @ScrotusXL
      @ScrotusXL 26 дней назад

      Sorry it’s Gant 😂❤

  • @smiddywesson2703
    @smiddywesson2703 Месяц назад +112

    I was a kid when I read the book, the movie was a good approximation. Clint makes everything work better.

    • @davidscott820
      @davidscott820 Месяц назад +1

      Did you read Firefox Down as well?

    • @fazole
      @fazole Месяц назад +1

      ​@@davidscott820
      That wasnt bad either but I hardly remember it.

    • @smiddywesson2703
      @smiddywesson2703 Месяц назад +1

      @@davidscott820 No, and I haven't even heard of it. Thanks, I will look it up

    • @diamondbill7556
      @diamondbill7556 Месяц назад +1

      My one disappointment was the final fight scene. In the book he is thinking, “I wish I had a missile I could shoot backwards.” The thought-controlled system dutifully ejected a flare which got sucked into the other engine. It was all accidental. In the movie he not only did it on purpose, but they tried to add suspense by making him “think in Russian,” whatever that means. Still a decent approximation of the book.

    • @smgdfcmfah
      @smgdfcmfah Месяц назад +2

      @@diamondbill7556 That's just a minor detail, but I know what you mean about a change at the wrong time. It's like when I saw The Hunt for Red October in the theater, I was so looking forward to Ramius ramming the V.K. Konovalov, but ended up with the rather cheesy scene where they're hit by their own torpedo - though the scene with Dallas luring the torpedo and then doing the emergency surface was outstanding, I still would have preferred the book's ending with the ramming!

  • @camschuster5947
    @camschuster5947 Месяц назад +43

    The only movie I have purchased in full on RUclips. Absolute classic. “Think in Russian.”

    • @DarrylRaymondLerette-g2q
      @DarrylRaymondLerette-g2q 22 дня назад

      @@camschuster5947 Some elements of truth seem so very spurious and elusive it seem nearly impossible to get a clear fix on what our loving freedom of speech
      actually entails. The virtual reality of our language has the potential to lead us down the deadly path of negative thinking. A linguistics professor at Harvard was lecturing his class and he said, "...in English, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double
      negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative ."
      If your reality is just an epistemological reflection of your political narrative, the truth will shatter your reality. Even the very nature of Biblical Truth can be
      so very fickle. When we go back to Genesis we read of God asking the man, ""Where are you?"" But it's not like God did not know where Adam was. Some
      would say God was lying when He asked that question. Others would say God was testing the man when He asked that question. Still others would say God
      was the conscience of the man questioning his own actions.
      Like it or not, there does seem to be some hidden spectrum of truth which requires faith to see, There must be some Rainbow Spectrum of Truth Frequencies
      between Absolute Truth and Nuanced Truth, like a Rainbow Bridge of Truth. I am reminded of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies.

  • @Lithonion1
    @Lithonion1 29 дней назад +48

    I remember this sitting in the hanger in Cut Bank, MT when I was a kid. My father had his plane in the same hanger so he had access. He drove me out saying he wanted to show me something cool. As a kid, walking into the hanger and seeing the Firefox sitting there thinking it was real was pretty mind blowing. I remember it being all wood and If I recall it had small engine inside on the back with a chain to a gear on the main gear wheels on one side so they could taxi it around. It had controls for it about the center of the plane. It was pretty neat seeing all the fake icebergs, dry ice lines for the fog and submarine sail set up in the field at the airport. For a town that got massive snow fall at any given time every couple days during winter we didn't get snow for 3 weeks. The production crew got tired of waiting and packed it all up and went to Glasgow, MT. The night they left, we got 18" of snow. lol

    • @anthonyc8499
      @anthonyc8499 27 дней назад +3

      wow, that's an amazing story! Very cool

    • @coolcat6303
      @coolcat6303 25 дней назад +1

      I had no idea this part was filmed in Montana. Filled in nicely for Mother Russia. Haha. Also, what a great childhood memory. Thx for sharing.

    • @Bear333-o9n
      @Bear333-o9n 9 дней назад

      Awesome

  • @jbazinga2385
    @jbazinga2385 Месяц назад +19

    My father and uncle took me to see this as they both loved Clint and thought I might enjoy this movie. I was 17 when it came out. Loved it.

  • @therealknapster
    @therealknapster 14 дней назад +6

    A forgotten classic and rarely played on Television . A phase in time with aircraft , we had blue thunder & of course air wolf & this brilliant Clint performance

  • @davidsmith1162
    @davidsmith1162 Месяц назад +71

    First Time I Saw This Movie, I Was Blown Away. FIREFOX, What A Machine, Awesome😊.

    • @xaero76
      @xaero76 Месяц назад

      yeah, always loved this one as a Kid in the 80s / 90s

    • @mitsos_306
      @mitsos_306 Месяц назад

      Me too!

  • @lawdawg02actual
    @lawdawg02actual 22 дня назад +3

    This is crazy. I was just thinking about this movie the other day. Didn’t say it out loud, didn’t talk about it, didn’t google it. Now here is a video in my feed about it. Our phones are now reading our minds.

  • @gan9e
    @gan9e Месяц назад +100

    I've watched this film over ten times now, I loved it back in the 80s and still do.

    • @DKS225
      @DKS225 Месяц назад +2

      Especially The Uncut version.

    • @xaero76
      @xaero76 Месяц назад +2

      only 10 ? lol
      But yeah, one of my all time Favorites from the 80s for sure!

    • @gravyboat2370
      @gravyboat2370 Месяц назад +1

      Great film, very underated

    • @doublestrokeroll
      @doublestrokeroll Месяц назад

      I think I liked it as a kid but then I grew up and figured out it's was just nonsense American propaganda.

    • @annabhae
      @annabhae Месяц назад

      Movie name???

  • @Christopherblack1122
    @Christopherblack1122 Месяц назад +44

    Watched this in the drive inn. With my uncle and cousin. Good memories, both gone now ❤

    • @michaelnaisbitt7926
      @michaelnaisbitt7926 Месяц назад +6

      I know what you mean I saw this movie with my brother and wife Little did I know that within 5 years I would have both taken from me RIP Seeing this clip brought back to me the fracility of our lives and how you are alive one minute and gone forever the next

    • @billh.5360
      @billh.5360 Месяц назад

      ​@@michaelnaisbitt7926 Very sorry to hear that. May God continue to comfort you.

    • @frederickwongkwonghon6445
      @frederickwongkwonghon6445 26 дней назад

      @@michaelnaisbitt7926 how did they croak?

  • @wolfen7577
    @wolfen7577 Месяц назад +142

    He speaks perfect English to the guards and no one suspects him as a spy, love the old movies

    • @eugenebuckley7657
      @eugenebuckley7657 Месяц назад +31

      There wasn't much point in him speaking Russian when the cinema audience couldn't understand the dialogue 🤣🤣🤣

    • @deildegast
      @deildegast Месяц назад +11

      Yeah, because speaking perfect russian in an american movie would get everyone involved anywhere.

    • @Richard-GaryButler
      @Richard-GaryButler Месяц назад +5

      I was thinking the very same thing.

    • @PeterT-i1w
      @PeterT-i1w Месяц назад +13

      at least the Americans didn't send a black guy this time

    • @detangojet
      @detangojet Месяц назад +10

      Bugs me every time. At least give him a Russian accent.

  • @FrancisKinsleyJr
    @FrancisKinsleyJr Месяц назад +25

    Almost like a cult classic, but very underrated. All of the silence and darkness really captures the 80s cold war vibes.

  • @stevennevins6643
    @stevennevins6643 Месяц назад +27

    Watched this aboard a ferry crossing from Zeebrugge to Felixstowe during a severe North Sea gale. The pitching of the ship added another dimension to the flying scenes!

  • @christopherrobertson8098
    @christopherrobertson8098 Месяц назад +44

    An all star cast for the senior members and an exceptional cold war era based thriller, excellent design for the plane too

    • @heresynco
      @heresynco Месяц назад +2

      Stefan Schnabel simply owns his role. Nigel Hawthorne also.

    • @andyman8630
      @andyman8630 Месяц назад +1

      all those right angles at the nose/cockpit? that alone makes it a trans-sonic bird like the F-111

    • @MasterMayhem78
      @MasterMayhem78 29 дней назад +2

      Ive seen an RC scale version of this plane and it flies beautifully

    • @andyman8630
      @andyman8630 28 дней назад +1

      @@MasterMayhem78
      no doubt - and your model doesn't even achieve 'trans-sonic' am i right?

  • @nwbklr
    @nwbklr 20 дней назад +4

    Hidden gem. For a boy in the 80’s this was straight aviation PORN.

  • @Izavos
    @Izavos Месяц назад +35

    Here in Brazil we watched it on TV in the 80s.
    I remember my mother "RIP" checking to see if I had already gone to sleep.
    I was flying the MIG31.

  • @jond1965
    @jond1965 Месяц назад +21

    Another great Clint flick. Saw this with my father in the theater. He loved cold war movies.

  • @ChadRewski
    @ChadRewski Месяц назад +114

    I remember watching Firefox on HBO when I was a kid. This film captured the dark backdrop of early the 1980’s Soviet Union perfectly.

    • @BufordTGleason
      @BufordTGleason Месяц назад +4

      Me too on HBO I must’ve watched it 20 times anything Clint Eastwood from the good the bad and the ugly to any which way, but loose I was a fan of . In retrospect, I find it interesting that the film portrayed the Soviet Union in lock step with the views of the United States government. there is no doubt they were evil however the idea that our government was fighting the forces of dictatorship for democracy has been proven to be wishful thinking. In addition, that our lives were so much better as citizens the United States, as opposed to citizens of the Soviet Union, and that our economic system was clearly better does not have the same shine as it did 35 years ago.

    • @John-tx1wk
      @John-tx1wk Месяц назад +1

      Same here. My family did not have cable but an uncle that lived two houses down did. I remember watching it multiple times at his house while him and my dad sat outside drinking beer on the weekends. All those channels run together for me so I couldn't remember if it was HBO, Showtime or the The Movie Channel.

    • @doublestrokeroll
      @doublestrokeroll Месяц назад +13

      You mean it captured US propaganda perfectly. Still flies over the heads of most americans as judging by the comments here.

    • @smgdfcmfah
      @smgdfcmfah Месяц назад

      @@doublestrokeroll It did, but there was a lot of accuracy there, as well. The Soviet Union certainly wasn't the worker's paradise most leftist morons believe it was these days. Half the free world LONGS to be ruled like Soviet style peasants - but only because they think it was a million times better than it actually was.

    • @Grencer42RUS
      @Grencer42RUS Месяц назад +4

      А ты был в Советском Союзе? Фон там был в то время нормальный...Даже в армии.😂😂😂

  • @dropshippilot
    @dropshippilot Месяц назад +62

    God, I loved this movie as a kid.

    • @carlosamerico6452
      @carlosamerico6452 Месяц назад +1

      Filme sensacional demais. Pena que não tem na Netflix não 😮. E não achei o DVD . Um dos melhores filmes de ação de Clint de quem sou fã, apesar de estar no Brazil país onde tudo é difícil.

    • @channelwhywhywhy
      @channelwhywhywhy Месяц назад +2

      Same! I watched it over and over again!

    • @sammywestenberger9303
      @sammywestenberger9303 Месяц назад

      Michael: Amen 🙏

    • @LRS905
      @LRS905 Месяц назад

      Hey Kid, this is God, thank you for the comment...

    • @xaero76
      @xaero76 Месяц назад

      we had the best stuff as Kids in the 80s...

  • @Jabberwok28
    @Jabberwok28 Месяц назад +9

    This was such a perfect Cold War film. More serious than Red Heat, but still astonishingly good. Clint’s Russian was not horrible.

    • @Grencer42RUS
      @Grencer42RUS Месяц назад +1

      Это кинокомедия похлеще,чем кино с Чарли Чаплиным...😂😂😂

    • @Jabberwok28
      @Jabberwok28 Месяц назад

      @ Может быть но не согласен.

    • @Grencer42RUS
      @Grencer42RUS Месяц назад

      @@Jabberwok28 с чем несогласен?Ну,хорошо, не Чаплин, Савелий Крамаров.😂😂😂

  • @jamesdunn1935
    @jamesdunn1935 27 дней назад +17

    the casting for the KGB and resistant characters was excellent in this movie, they were very convincing.

    • @elchinpirbabayev5757
      @elchinpirbabayev5757 25 дней назад

      that's what 80 years of propaganda convinced you of!!! I find none of it convincing in the slightest! Rambo 3 is better than that!

    • @AVlad-eg3ds
      @AVlad-eg3ds 24 дня назад

      That is because you have zero knowledge about Soviet Union... All this scene is like a bad amateur theatre play from 19th century about 20th century. A really bad one. Zero realism and zero knowledge on what they film.
      But I think it does the job. Represents us as evil idiots and successfully dehumanizes us and that is why you all like it.

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      @heatkhan-o5d 4 дня назад

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  • @spike-bubble
    @spike-bubble Месяц назад +25

    Actually met Mr. Eastwood during the filming of this movie when stationed at Edwards Air Force Base.

  • @Brian-qn7fn
    @Brian-qn7fn 27 дней назад +12

    WB needs to release the full length version on Blu-ray.

    • @DrFrankNStein-sf2ww
      @DrFrankNStein-sf2ww 6 дней назад

      With modernized special effects please ! A lot of them didn't age very well. Just rewatched the movie 2 weeks ago.

  • @HungryAndorian
    @HungryAndorian Месяц назад +19

    Classic. I appreciate the slow build up of tension.

  • @beangrff
    @beangrff Месяц назад +43

    I've always loved that there was a real MiG-31 in the 80s that looked nothing like this lol

    • @piotrmalewski8178
      @piotrmalewski8178 Месяц назад +11

      Yup. Ironically, while the Soviets were very good at making planes as a whole, their electronics were 20 years behind. They did have amazing electronic projects like the OGAS system and first Pentium processors were based on research by former Soviet engineers hired by Intel, but practical execution of new designs got stuck in early 70s due to bureaucracy and inherent problems of centrally planned economy.

    • @thesweeples3266
      @thesweeples3266 Месяц назад +1

      Why does that make you laugh out loud? Odd, that.

    • @CarlClements-f7j
      @CarlClements-f7j Месяц назад

      ​@@thesweeples3266lol

    • @RodmanTackleAdvisor
      @RodmanTackleAdvisor Месяц назад

      Yup. The pug. Ugly as hell but a good jet.

    • @reddingtom
      @reddingtom Месяц назад +1

      Damn if they cockpit area is the same as an f117??? This was a few years before the unveiling of the f117?? Somebody got some inside info

  • @smallfaucet
    @smallfaucet Месяц назад +13

    It's a slow burn, but an awesome movie!
    Always loved that one line "Smoke it!"

  • @thatguyfromcetialphaV
    @thatguyfromcetialphaV 15 дней назад +2

    I first saw it on TV when I was a kid. My mate said I should watch it. I had a small portable with rabbit ears and was hooked. And on a school night too! Mum found the book in a charity shop a few days later which I still have.

  • @rospencer611
    @rospencer611 Месяц назад +30

    You know AI is getting a little too creepy when yesterday you are simply "thinking" about a good movie you saw years ago, and it pops up 1st on your suggested RUclips feed today. Didn't talk, search, nothing - just a thinking about a memory.

    • @tdpro3607
      @tdpro3607 Месяц назад +4

      this could be done without a model, simply marks you with other people pf similar intrests, then when they dive in a nostalgia wave every once in while, the algorithm takes note and delivers you those contents before you even think of looking for

    • @smgdfcmfah
      @smgdfcmfah Месяц назад +6

      That's because you thought in Russian.

    • @ryantaylor3805
      @ryantaylor3805 Месяц назад +1

      That's because you are AI. Just organic.

    • @stevek8829
      @stevek8829 Месяц назад

      Did you watch any Eastwood or similar movies?

    • @rexxbailey2764
      @rexxbailey2764 24 дня назад

      GOOD! THINK OFB SOME HOT MOMMA PORN ON RUclips, THINK IT HARD AND SEE WHAT COME'S ON RUclips FOR IT OVER THE WEEKEND!! 😎☝

  • @09rja
    @09rja 3 часа назад +1

    My fav part of the film is when they figure out why Gant is there. "He cannot be here for that!"

  • @stanlee-eq7lu
    @stanlee-eq7lu Месяц назад +6

    Every time I try to Google this movie, all I get are searches for the Firefox browser. A definite favorite of mine.

    • @thejamesasher
      @thejamesasher Месяц назад +1

      got to include mig 31 in the search

    • @guguigugu
      @guguigugu 24 дня назад

      have you tried "firefox movie" by chance?

  • @Automobiliana
    @Automobiliana 24 дня назад +1

    All the memories shared in the comments here ❤️ Isn’t this how the internet should be?
    I am sorry for everyones loss, my condolences

  • @willc1294
    @willc1294 Месяц назад +30

    13:00 Once again Captain Piett lets his prey escape...

  • @thomasboroughs201
    @thomasboroughs201 2 дня назад

    Me & my brothers saw this movie at the Media Theater for $1 in 1983. We loved it, stayed & watched the 2nd showing. What a great theater, Art Deco design, it would show newish movies 6 months after their initial release. We saw many great movies there. Stripes, For Your Eyes Only, Arthur, An Officer & A Gentleman, Tron..

  • @daviddaugherty5528
    @daviddaugherty5528 Месяц назад +17

    At least he got to see Gant go for the plane before he died.

    • @raven-jn8yn
      @raven-jn8yn Месяц назад +6

      In the novel he didn't .

    • @fazole
      @fazole Месяц назад +4

      ​@@raven-jn8yn
      Yeah. That was cold.

  • @PopCultureCat
    @PopCultureCat Месяц назад +5

    A much underrated Cold War movie. Love it.

  • @doorswhofan
    @doorswhofan Месяц назад +13

    I remember seeing this in the theater -- I think my dad took me -- I was 13. What a different time that was.

  • @Latham74
    @Latham74 26 дней назад +10

    Saw this in theaters, this is peak Cold War action suspense!

  • @JohnBerry-q1h
    @JohnBerry-q1h Месяц назад +8

    This was one of the first movies to have an arcade video game, of the same name, simultaneously show-up in the video arcades. The video game, of course, was based on the movie.

    • @CantankerousDave
      @CantankerousDave Месяц назад

      A laserdisc game, no less. Used the same controller as the Star Wars arcade game.

    • @JohnBerry-q1h
      @JohnBerry-q1h Месяц назад

      @@CantankerousDave For _Star Wars,_ going to the trouble to put a dedicated video arcade game INTO nearly every video arcade location makes sense, because _Star Wars_ was a blockbuster movie. _Firefox,_ on the other hand, was NO blockbuster.

    • @RodmanTackleAdvisor
      @RodmanTackleAdvisor Месяц назад

      ​@@JohnBerry-q1hBut the game WAS. That was tge OG fighter game. Very advanced for the time.

  • @LRS905
    @LRS905 Месяц назад +38

    Hey, that soviet colonel is one of Darth Vader's subordinates, LOL

    • @robertmorris8997
      @robertmorris8997 Месяц назад +12

      Empire pay isn't what it used to be. Material losses you know.

    • @Csetnikke
      @Csetnikke 9 дней назад

      Admiral Piet====>Colonel Privyet

  • @thedevilinthecircuit1414
    @thedevilinthecircuit1414 21 день назад

    It's Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's a Good Guy!
    His scene in RotLA in the tent with the coat hanger is hilarious.
    Rest in peace, Mr. Ronald Lacey. You were one of the greats.

  • @gec-o2167
    @gec-o2167 Месяц назад +16

    "Gant, can you fly that plane? Really fly it?" "Yeah, I can fly it. I'm the best there is."

    • @Ifoughtpiranhas
      @Ifoughtpiranhas Месяц назад

      Dim from 'A Clockwork Orange' decided to become a Soviet dissident after his life of droog ultra-violence came to an end.

  • @stevenray8737
    @stevenray8737 9 дней назад

    A very good film. The thing I admire most about Firefox is that while Clint does take center stage in the inevitable flight of the titular aircraft, he's picked a great cast of actors to make the spy part of the film shine brightly.
    I'm only sad that Firefox Down was never made. Even an animated adaptation would be welcome.

  • @mattb8754
    @mattb8754 Месяц назад +35

    Its an older code but it checks out

  • @thomastarwater6035
    @thomastarwater6035 12 дней назад

    I saw FIREFOX in 1982 at the Bitburg Air Base movie house while stationed at nearby Pruem Air Station, north of Bitburg. What made it memorable was that the projector bulb kept flickering throughout the entire feature. Two years later I was stationed at Mill Valley Air Force Station, and one evening ABC was showing the Clint Eastwood thriller in a three-hour broadcast slot in 1984. Well, I taped it off the air and dubbed it later on, leaving out the commercials. ABC showed the entire movie, and I got plenty of thrills. The visual effects were great, but it was Clint Eastwood who anchored the film all the way.

  • @jagriv5659
    @jagriv5659 Месяц назад +5

    One of his best movies, I have watched this maybe a thousand times.

  • @dangermouse957
    @dangermouse957 Месяц назад +9

    Still a great movie , eastwood is a legend actor.

  • @anreechase8020
    @anreechase8020 Месяц назад +7

    I know this film, I have been re-watching this film for several years now. For me, this is the only film with Clint Eastwood that I not only watched to the end, but also re-watched 5 or 6 times already. A very stylish film, for my taste.

  • @yener2006
    @yener2006 Месяц назад +15

    I am 48 years old, I watched this when I was a kid, patiently waiting for a remake

    • @RodmanTackleAdvisor
      @RodmanTackleAdvisor Месяц назад +3

      Clint controls the rights. He may be close to doing it. That's one of the ones he's indicated he'd like to have an update to.

    • @kofib3
      @kofib3 27 дней назад

      Same here as a kid, I was just in awe of the plane.

    • @robertthomas1286
      @robertthomas1286 25 дней назад

      Why? It’d be all woke and suck like everything Hollywood puts out these days.

    • @KeithBright-v4l
      @KeithBright-v4l 25 дней назад +3

      Careful what you wish for, they would ruin it if they made a remake today. Not sure if Clint is up to doing it as he is gettin old. But Clint is still a timeless classic in his own right.

    • @earlycuyler4019
      @earlycuyler4019 23 дня назад

      No more remakes! It’s all Hollywood does anymore. They end up ruining everything they touch.

  • @ardiffley-zipkin9539
    @ardiffley-zipkin9539 Месяц назад +3

    This is my first view of this video. Although I have been a fan of Clint Eastwood for years, i hadn’t heard or seen Firefox. Great action movie.

  • @heatkhan-o5d
    @heatkhan-o5d 4 дня назад

    I was a kid when I read the book, the movie was a good approximation. Clint makes everything work

  • @Shane_Little
    @Shane_Little 24 дня назад +4

    Wow! I haven’t thought of this film in years!! Awesome!

  • @80s_Boombox_Collector
    @80s_Boombox_Collector 8 дней назад

    This movie freaked me out as a kid. The cold war was at its peak, everything about the USSR was depicted so ominously and dark. They really did a good job building tension in this.

  • @FlyingTigress
    @FlyingTigress Месяц назад +5

    I still remember when a special showing was made of "Firefox" at the San Diego Aerospace Museum.

  • @Shadow-bs1iu
    @Shadow-bs1iu 13 дней назад

    One of my favourite spy films and it’s aged very well. Watched this many times whilst staying over at my grandparents when I was younger.

  • @gerardwalsh2369
    @gerardwalsh2369 Месяц назад +4

    One of my favourites.......it's soo relevant still.....it's almost a saga.

  • @j2times2006
    @j2times2006 24 дня назад

    I remember my moms driving all over town to find this movie playing. Finally found a showing at the 4 screen movie theater in the middle of a shopping Plaza parking lot. One of the coolest 2 hours a 7 year old could have

  • @andyh.6317
    @andyh.6317 Месяц назад +9

    An awesome film. Then and still is now. I think one of the scientist technicians with the glasses was one of the SS officers in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

    • @railtrolley
      @railtrolley Месяц назад +5

      Ronald Lacey. Played Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders

  • @yohansong3207
    @yohansong3207 11 дней назад +1

    I loved this movie as a child. Watching it again I notice many problems with this movie, but damn, I still love this movie.

  • @SeanOHanlon
    @SeanOHanlon Месяц назад +8

    Fun Fact:
    The basic design of the fictional Firefox in this movie was almost identical to the real XB-70 Valkyrie bomber that was designed, built, and flight tested in the mid to late 1950's and intended for use by the Air Force.

    • @PopulismIsForBottomFeeders
      @PopulismIsForBottomFeeders Месяц назад +1

      Real fact: It has a similar wing configuration. That's where the similarities end entirely.

    • @johncampbell3979
      @johncampbell3979 Месяц назад +3

      No where near the XB-70 in design. Far closer to the Blackbird, with the exception of engine placement, which is more like the F-18.

    • @FP194
      @FP194 Месяц назад +1

      Not even close to the XB-70 which is about 3 times the size

    • @SeanOHanlon
      @SeanOHanlon Месяц назад +1

      @@johncampbell3979
      Look again. The Firefox looks nothing like the SR-71 while having the same basic canards and drop winglets of the Valkyrie.
      (Just FYI: I was in the Air Force and got to see the Blackbird up close.)

    • @calvinnickel9995
      @calvinnickel9995 26 дней назад

      More like the XF-108.. but really its own design.

  • @steveb4012
    @steveb4012 Месяц назад +3

    Loved the book by Craig Thomas, Absolutely loved the film and Clint did a great job.

  • @augustseptember3503
    @augustseptember3503 Месяц назад +5

    seriously good scene in a seriously good movie, nice one Clint!

  • @DF-eg8vl
    @DF-eg8vl 28 дней назад

    I remember as a kid wanting to watch only the action scenes but they make no sense without watching everything that comes before. This is a movie you need to watch it all, is so good.

  • @dmac7128
    @dmac7128 25 дней назад +4

    One of the coolest looking fictional planes ever to be put on film.
    And at the end Captain Piett had the same look on his face when the Firefox took off as he had when the Millennium Falcon went into hyperspace at the end of Empire Strikes Back

  • @parioceanchicago
    @parioceanchicago 17 дней назад

    The charisma of Clint is incredible.

  • @Skyjuice70
    @Skyjuice70 Месяц назад +10

    The way he walked out to the Mig-31 so cool, calm, and collected in the midst of all that chaos is pure cinematic genius.

  • @FlavorTownCityCouncil
    @FlavorTownCityCouncil 27 дней назад +1

    The hilarious part of this is that while this was being filmed, the USA had the SR-71 and F-117 in active service, while the B-2 and F-22 were in design phase..... The Soviets never had anything even remotely close to ANY of those.

  • @hondomckee1555
    @hondomckee1555 19 дней назад +3

    Still my favorite movie. I used to dream about stealing the MiG-31.

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 Месяц назад +4

    A bit of Polish at 1:02 can be heard in the background - _jeszcze raz_ which means "again", whereas Russian would be _yeshsho raz_ - it might be they had trouble finding actual Russians and got a Pole or two to stand in instead (I have noticed this in other films).

    • @maxgluteus4263
      @maxgluteus4263 26 дней назад

      Based on your spelling, Russian and polish are very similar

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 23 дня назад

      @@maxgluteus4263 Grammatically, yes. A lot. Vocabulary maybe 40-45% shared. To set it in context, Italian and Spanish are about 70% shared vocabulary, which is enough for speakers of each to vaguely understand one another.
      Erwin Weit, the Polish-German interpreter for Polish party chief Gomulka, noted that when talks were being held with East German counterpart Ulbricht. Weit sensed that Ulbricht, a fluent Russian speaker after many years in Moscow, could understand something of the Polish Gomulka was speaking before Weit translated - just because of some Polish-Russian similarities.

    • @maxgluteus4263
      @maxgluteus4263 23 дня назад +1

      @@stevekaczynski3793 thank you for your info! I can tell your last name is Polish, I hope Polish and Russian can get along given there are so much similarities

  • @kifferh9947
    @kifferh9947 26 дней назад +3

    I always hoped they would turn the next book, Firefox Down, into a sequel movie. But it never happened. Too bad. It was also an excellent story...

  • @robinenbernhard
    @robinenbernhard 16 дней назад +1

    Love this move and when was on dutch TV i watch every time when i was kid.
    Am 42yr old and stil love this movie

  • @lukestevens8735
    @lukestevens8735 Месяц назад +28

    I read the book when it came out in 77. Very exciting for a 9 year old!

    • @xaero76
      @xaero76 Месяц назад +2

      yeah was a great movie back in the 80s too

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 Месяц назад +2

      There is also a sequel book.

    • @jimmycelt8441
      @jimmycelt8441 Месяц назад +4

      @@julianaylor4351 Firefox Down its good as well id love that to get made into a movie sequel

    • @lukestevens8735
      @lukestevens8735 Месяц назад

      @@julianaylor4351 It wasn't as exciting as the original.

    • @neilwatson7458
      @neilwatson7458 Месяц назад +2

      Remember the book cover with the nose, canards, an intake and a TSR2 style wing appearing out of a cloud?.. As a young lad whose uncle was RAF and took me to every Airshow I was obsessed with fighter aircraft and saved pocket money to get the book on that image alone!
      P.S. anyone remember the sit-in arcade game? That cost me a LOT of pocket/birthday/Christmas money!

  • @coolcat6303
    @coolcat6303 25 дней назад +1

    Fun fact: the Russian scientist who gets executed is Englishman Ronald Lacey. He is best known for playing Toht - the black trench coat wearing Nazi henchman in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. The other scientist who helps Gant at 10:15 is English actor Nigel Hawthorne. He did hundreds of roles on stage and screen and is probably best known for playing Sly’s nemesis - Dr. Cocteau in “The Demolition Man”.

  • @Roybatty066
    @Roybatty066 28 дней назад +4

    The summer of 82. The cigarette smoke was thick in the theater when I took my dad to see this movie. I had just turned 50, and my dad was 73. We are both still alive and kicking and still talk about this movie often.

    • @johnstuckaiii
      @johnstuckaiii 28 дней назад +2

      Wow your dad is 115 and you're 92 if not one year older for either of you?

    • @fastkarr8256
      @fastkarr8256 27 дней назад +1

      ⁠@@johnstuckaiiihis dad was 73 in 1982? That’s 42 years ago😳😳

    • @niklazz7037
      @niklazz7037 22 дня назад +2

      then you slipped out of bed and woke up from your dream. Tell happy Bday to your 115yo father.

  • @cbc8716
    @cbc8716 22 дня назад +1

    Impeccable Russian with a FANTASTIC DIALECT done by Clint.

    • @cbc8716
      @cbc8716 9 дней назад

      Thanks for getting it.
      I’M ON MY WAY TO RUclips STARDOM!!!

  • @johnk1639
    @johnk1639 Месяц назад +22

    Good job speaking in English with an American accent didn’t give him away

    • @iain075
      @iain075 Месяц назад +4

      I find it more concerning that all the guards speak fluent English with really disturbing efforts at a Russian accent.

    • @sammywestenberger9303
      @sammywestenberger9303 Месяц назад

      Michael: Thanks 🙏

    • @thomaspelton7740
      @thomaspelton7740 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@iain075it's like The hunt for Red October movie. They are on a Soviet Sub and they are speaking English . Lol. It kinda ruins the mood. Lol

    • @iain075
      @iain075 Месяц назад

      @@thomaspelton7740 Hang on, the Captain is Scottish comrades!

    • @CantankerousDave
      @CantankerousDave Месяц назад +1

      If movies have taught is anything, is that people outside the US talk to each other in accented English when Americans aren’t around. When Americans are around, the locals speak the local language - badly.

  • @jimmymckay73
    @jimmymckay73 29 дней назад

    I lived in Alaska when this came out, and at the beginning where it says somewhere in Alaska on the screen the whole treater cheered. I was 9 at the time I loved this movie then and still today.

  • @IgorKlajo
    @IgorKlajo Месяц назад +3

    One of my favourite Eastwood movies

  • @GreggRoberts
    @GreggRoberts Месяц назад

    I was so happy when they remastered this into 1080. 😎

  • @benny210169
    @benny210169 Месяц назад +25

    I love the reference to Firefox in The Hunt for Red October.
    "This isn't a pilot with a stray MiG..."

    • @magoid
      @magoid Месяц назад +22

      I believe that is a reference to Viktor Belenko's defection in 1976, when he brought to Japan the then brand new and secret MiG-25.

    • @benny210169
      @benny210169 Месяц назад +1

      @magoid maybe so but in this context, Baldwin's character is eager to "take the boat" and the politician reminds him it's not plain sailing.

    • @smgdfcmfah
      @smgdfcmfah Месяц назад +6

      @@magoid It definitely is, but I think Firefox was also inspired by that real life incident.

    • @calvinnickel9995
      @calvinnickel9995 26 дней назад

      @magoid
      The Mig-25 was nearly a decade old at that point.. and the prototype YE-155 had actually flown way back in 1964.

  • @JustinCredible61-g8n
    @JustinCredible61-g8n Месяц назад +1

    I loved the book - I loved the movie, because it was just like the book. Firefox Down is another great book that should have been made into a movie!

  • @SirCliffy
    @SirCliffy Месяц назад +3

    I have the movie and watch it over and over. With me right now on the road as a truck driver.

  • @MGB-learning
    @MGB-learning Месяц назад +2

    I was a Drive-in theatre Manager when it came out. Great movie!

  • @JohnInBlack1
    @JohnInBlack1 Месяц назад +8

    Great movie ! Pity there was never a film made of the 2nd book.

    • @FIREBRAND38
      @FIREBRAND38 Месяц назад

      The sequel was even more ludicrous than the first.

    • @sammywestenberger9303
      @sammywestenberger9303 Месяц назад

      Michael: Amazing 😻

    • @lowellcalavera6045
      @lowellcalavera6045 Месяц назад

      I concur

    • @lowellcalavera6045
      @lowellcalavera6045 Месяц назад

      @@FIREBRAND38Nah. The ice floe refueling was perfectly feasible, as was the Soviets sending the second one after him. And this one was absolutely possible. Infiltration and theft, assisted by inside players. Happens every day.

  • @80sCrazyCatDadNGunAddiction
    @80sCrazyCatDadNGunAddiction 26 дней назад

    This is far and away, Eastwood's best work.

  • @SherrieLujan
    @SherrieLujan Месяц назад +24

    Can you really fly it, can you fly the plane........ I'm the best there is.✈️

    • @davidbutler1857
      @davidbutler1857 Месяц назад

      In the book he’s even cockier than that. Talks about himself constantly

  • @unkulwilly
    @unkulwilly Месяц назад

    as an 80s kid the arcade game for this movie was absolutely epic! the graphics where far better than most of the other black background screens at the time.

    • @jeffleszczynski618
      @jeffleszczynski618 Месяц назад

      That's because it was a LaserDisc game...the only computer generated effects were the cursor and the rings of the bullets...ruclips.net/user/shortsFPoLiZ6uobA

  • @alanstrong55
    @alanstrong55 Месяц назад +12

    I was never sneaky enough to pull off such a stunt. I left those things alone. Still alive today

  • @vicmclaglen1631
    @vicmclaglen1631 17 дней назад

    I have no explanation why this movie still creeps into my head all these years later.

  • @rodsharp8346
    @rodsharp8346 Месяц назад +8

    Make it again with current day special effects. Clint might not get up the ladder .😢

    • @johnsutcliffe3209
      @johnsutcliffe3209 Месяц назад +2

      The new version would be a drone he could fly it from the rest home. 😂

    • @FP194
      @FP194 Месяц назад +4

      His son could and he looks a lot like Clint

  • @mickywanderer8276
    @mickywanderer8276 15 дней назад

    The sounds when he starts the engines sound realistic. 1. APU starts up. 2. APU starts spinning engine 3. Engine 1 is spooling up. 4. APU switches to engine 2. 5. Engine 2 spools up. 6. All engines running. Of course the tail plugs would've blown out way before they're shown but I love that attention to detail.

  • @marcghiggeri4965
    @marcghiggeri4965 Месяц назад +7

    Had no idea Nigel Hawthorne (as a Russian no less) was in this movie...Wow....

  • @roger4880
    @roger4880 19 дней назад

    One of my favourite movies of all time, amazing still. Please release the extended version as a 4K please please

  • @anilles2001
    @anilles2001 Месяц назад +4

    This was always a classic to me. Wasn't perfect but good enough.

  • @SteveWagner-cb8ft
    @SteveWagner-cb8ft 8 дней назад

    was at Thule ab when they were there filming, Clint was pretty impressed with the B-52 G we brought in, gave him the full tour

  • @zzodr
    @zzodr Месяц назад +7

    0:29 That is one dirty windscreen