Shot on location in Vienna, Austria, which subs for Moscow.
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The film had two lavish premieres. One was a benefit in Washington for the USO, chaired by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. The other was a benefit for the Museum of Modern Art at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
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Fritz Manes, the excecutive producer of the film and a longtime friend and collaborator of Eastwood's, plays the American submarine captain.
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Warren Clarke, who plays Pavel Upenskoy, is perhaps best known for playing Dim, one of Alex's droogs, in Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
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John Ratzenberger, who later played Cliff Clavin on the popular sitcom CHEERS, plays one of the American soldiers on the submarine.
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The film ends with an editing trick found in several of Eastwood's films. In the last shot of the film, Eastwood's character (in this case, Mitchell Gant flying the Firefox) travels away from the camera, into the distance, and suddenly vanishes from the screen.
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