Blue Thunder
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| Directed by | John Badham |
| Produced by |
Gordon Carroll Phil Feldman Andrew Fogelson |
| Written by |
Dan O'Bannon Don Jakoby |
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| Music by | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
| Edited by |
Edward M. Abroms Frank Morriss |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $42,313,354 |
Blue Thunder is a 1983 action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham. The film features a high-tech helicopter of the same name and stars Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, and Malcolm McDowell. A spin-off television series also called Blue Thunder lasted 11 episodes in 1984.
Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) helicopter-pilot-officer and troubled Vietnam War veteran with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His newly assigned field partner is Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern). The two patrol Los Angeles at night and give assistance to police forces on the ground.
Murphy is selected to pilot the world's most advanced helicopter, nicknamed "Blue Thunder", a military-style combat aircraft intended for police use in surveillance and against possible large-scale civic disobedience during the forthcoming Olympic games. With powerful armament, stealth technology that allows it to fly virtually undetected and other accoutrements such as infrared scanners, powerful microphones and cameras, and a U-Matic VCR, Blue Thunder appears to be a formidable tool in the war on crime. Murphy notes wryly that with enough of these helicopters "you could run the whole damn country."
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