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Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Dracula & Wargames). The film features a high-tech helicopter of the same name and stars Roy Scheider (The French Connection, Jaws, All That Jazz), Warren Oates (Dillinger), Candy Clark (American Graffiti), Daniel Stern (City Slickers), and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange). A spin-off television series, also called Blue Thunder, ran for 11 episodes in 1984.
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Directed by John Badham
Written by Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby
Produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, Andrew Fogelson
Cinematography John A. Alonzo
Edited by Edward M. Abroms, Frank Morriss
Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein
Production company: Rastar
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date: May 13, 1983
Running time: 109 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $22 million
CAST:
Roy Scheider as Officer Francis McNeil "Frank" Murphy
Malcolm McDowell as Colonel F. E. Cochrane
Daniel Stern as Officer Richard Lymangood
Candy Clark as Kate
Warren Oates as Captain Jack Braddock
Joe Santos as Montoya
Paul Roebling as Icelan
David Sheiner as Fletcher
Anthony James as Grundelius
Ed Bernard as Sgt. Short
Jason Bernard as Mayor
Mario Machado as Himself
James Murtaugh as Alf Hewitt
Pat McNamara as Matusek
Jack Murdock as Kress
Clifford A. Pellow as Allen
Robin Braxton as Diane McNeely
Anna Forrest as Nudy Lucy
Blue Thunder was released on May 13, 1983. It was the number 1 ranked film in the United States on its opening weekend, taking in $8,258,149 at 1,539 theaters, overtaking the previous number 1 film Flashdance. The film was ranked No. 2 in its second and third weekends. Overall, in the US, it took in $42,313,354 for its 66 days of release. Blue Thunder was released in West Germany on February 5, 1983, before its US release, being released worldwide between June and September 1983. Its UK release was August 25, 1983.The film made $21.9 million in video rentals in the US.
Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is a "Metropolitan Police Department" air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War veteran with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His newly assigned observer is novice Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern). The two patrol Los Angeles at night and give assistance to police forces on the ground.
Murphy is instructed to attend a sunrise demonstration in the Mojave Desert at "Pinkville", and is selected to pilot an advanced helicopter, informally called "The Special" and nicknamed "Blue Thunder", during an evaluation exercise. It is a military-style combat aircraft intended for police use in surveillance and against possible large-scale civic disobedience during the then-upcoming 1984 Olympic games.
Murphy suspects the involvement of his old wartime nemesis, former United States Army Colonel F.E. Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell), the primary test pilot for Blue Thunder and someone who felt Murphy was "unsuitable" for the program. Murphy and Lymangood use Blue Thunder to record a meeting between Cochrane and the other government officials which would implicate them in the conspiracy, but Cochrane looks outside and sees Blue Thunder and realizes what has happened. Murphy hijacks Blue Thunder and arranges to have his girlfriend Kate (Candy Clark) retrieve the tape and deliver it to the local news station, using the helicopter to thwart her pursuers. K
With the force of the city on their side, due to Murphy having hijacked Blue Thunder and being deemed a "security risk", Cochrane and the other conspirators employ every asset they can manage to bring Blue Thunder down, beginning with two LAPD Bell 206s. After Murphy incapacitates the first one, forcing it to land via autorotation, he engages in a cat & mouse with the second by slaloming down the Los Angeles River viaduct until his pursuer crashes. Following this, two Air National Guard F-16 fighters are deployed to deal with Murphy, but he manages to shoot one of them down and evade the other. Cochrane, bent on revenge and finally putting down his former subordinate from Vietnam, disobeys orders to stand down and ambushes Blue Thunder in a heavily armed Hughes 500 helicopter. After a tense battle, Murphy is able to shoot Cochrane down after executing a 360° loop through use of Blue Thunder's turbine boost function. Murphy then destroys Blue Thunder by landing it in front of an approaching freight train.
In the meantime, the tape is made public and, as a result, the conspirators are arrested.
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