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Starring
Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern

Director
John Badham

Year
1983

Genre
Action

Synopsis
Roy Scheider stars in this fast-paced, gripping thriller as LA police pilot Frank Murphy, who is hand-picked by his boss to test an experimental attack helicopter called Blue Thunder.

Murphy is amazed by its ability to see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. But when he uses the craft's high-tech equipment to record a meeting in which Blue Thunder's secret destiny is revealed to be the ultimate weapon in illegal domestic surveillance and crowd control, Murphy is targeted for elimination.

This film was Warren Oates's (1928-1982), who played Capt. Jack Braddock, final film and is dedicated to him after the end of the credits: For Warren Oates With Love For All the Joy You Gave Us.

TRIVIA:
The television control room shown early in the film is the same control room set seen extensively in The China Syndrome (1979); the helicopter used to portray Blue Thunder was a French-made Gazelle helicopter with bolt-on parts to change its appearance; Frank Murphy drives a 1979 TransAm; the F-16 models were built by Gregory Jein (uncredited), famous for his science-fiction models for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

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