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Ex-Vietnam chopper pilot Roy Scheider is now in charge of Blue Thunder, a high-tech copter designed to quell possible terrorism during the 1984 LA Olympics. His onetime comrade-in-arms Malcolm McDowell, now his bitter enemy, will stop at nothing to neutralize Blue Thunder and expedite an armed ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1983 | Running Time: 110 minutes
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Blu-Ray Disc
$24.99BLUE THUNDER / (WS DUB SUB AC3 DOL)
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DVD
$13.99BLUE THUNDER / (WS SPEC DUB SUB AC3 DOL)
This 1983 production gets an A for its rousing action and an F for its farfetched plot and shallow characters. The film is really a rip-off of Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws (whether witting or unwitting), with Roy Scheider again portraying a likeable Irish-American policeman. In the opening scenes, an innocent female dies in an attack, just as in Jaws, and Scheider discovers the perpetrator: a cabal of government conspirators operating in the undercurrents of Los Angeles after dark. But ...more
- Roy Scheider - Frank Murphy
- Malcolm McDowell - Cochrane
- Warren Oates - Braddock
- Candy Clark - Kate
- Daniel Stern - Lymangood
- John Ashby - Thief
- Tony Brubaker - Thief
- Lucinda Crosby - Bel-Air Woman
- Tom Friedkin - Helicopter Pilot
- James W. Gavin - Helicopter Pilot
- Bill Lake - Policeman
- Jack Murdock - Kress
- Karl Wickman - Helicopter Pilot
- Ray Sharkey - Air Controller
- John Badham - Director
- Andrew Fogelson - Executive Producer
- Phil Feldman - Executive Producer
- Gordon Carroll - Producer
- Dean Riesner - Screenwriter
- Dan O'Bannon - Screenwriter
- Don Jakoby - Screenwriter
- Cate Bangs - Art Director
- Sydney Z. Litwack - Art Director
- Gregg Champion - Associate Producer
- Dianne Crittenden - Casting
- Marianna Elliott - Costume Designer
- Jerry Ziesmer - First Assistant Director
- Frank Morriss - Editor
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