F5600 FIREFOX (USA, 1982) (Other titles: Arme absolue)

Credits: director, ; writers, Alex Lasker, Wendell Wellman ; story, Craig Thomas. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke. Summary: Action/adventure film set in contemporary Great Britain and the . The Soviet Union has developed a devastating new fighter plane, code named Firefox. Mitchell Gant (Eastwood) is an ex-ace pilot still haunted by hallucinations of Vietnam. He is coerced by the US government to enter the Soviet Union, steal one of the new aircraft, and fly it out through the Soviet air defenses.

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Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, 1982. [Reissued, (Rev. ed.) Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel, 1988; (3d ed) Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1993]