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An international race is being waged to obtain the blueprints of a MIG-25 Foxbat Soviet fighter plane that has landed in Japan. Michael Saxon, an undercover U.S. spy, has secretly taken photos of the aircraft, and now he faces overwhelming odds to transport the microfilm back to his home country.
Jun 12, 2019 · An infamous defection. by Dario Leone. Belenko’s defection was mentioned in the novel Firefox by Craig Thomas, on which Clint Eastwood’s movie is based. On Sep. 6, 1976, Lt Viktor Belenko, a...
Dec 15, 1977 · Woo fook: Directed by Po-Chih Leong. With Henry Silva, Vonetta McGee, Rik Van Nutter, Roy Chiao. In Hong Kong, a Chinese cook swallows a microfilm by accident and becomes a target.
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- Action, Drama
- Po-Chih Leong
- 1977-12-15
The film is very loosely based on a real event from the year before, where Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko flew his MiG-25 (NATO codename: Foxbat) fighter jet to Japan in order to defect, and this plane itself, representing the cutting edge of Soviet technology, was made available to the Western…
- Po-Chih Leong
- Bang! Bang! Films
Sep 14, 2018 · The story of Foxbat is based in current events of the time, taking the defection of Russian pilot Viktor Belenko as its jumping off point. On September 6, 1976, Belenko landed his MiG-25 Foxbat jet at the Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido, Japan.
A Soviet pilot's defection to Japan triggers a battle for possession of his aircraft's top-secret blueprints.
- Action
Thriller. An American spy, on a secret mission to photograph a Soviet fight plane, faces overwhelming odds to transport the microfilm back home.
