Firepower

Firepower (1979)

The Target: The world's richest man. The Deal: Bring him back alive. The Prize: A million in cash.

A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Date of release
1979-04-27
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Action, Adventure
Director
Michael Winner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New York City

Firepower is a 1979 British-American action-thriller film directed by Michael Winner and starring Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O. J. Simpson and Eli Wallach. It was the final film in the career of actor Victor Mature. The film was poorly reviewed by critics who objected to its convoluted plot, though the lead performances and filming locations were generally praised.

Production

Firepower started as a Dirty Harry film written by Bill Kerby. It was considerably rewritten. In 1977, O. J. Simpson mentioned one of his upcoming projects was Fire Power for producer Carlo Ponti with Terence Hill.

Sophia Loren was cast at a reported fee of $1 million.

According to director Michael Winner, producer Lew Grade had fully expected Charles Bronson to co-star with Loren. With much of the pre-production crew already on location in the Caribbean (Saint Lucia), Grade wanted to shut down the production when Bronson pulled out.

Coburn said "I did it for the money, the locations (the Caribbean islands) and to work with Sophia Loren. The director was Michael Winner. He’s probably one of the weirdest guys I’ve ever met. Yet, I thought he was a good guy when I first met him. But when he got on the set, he was almost like a total dictator. I found it hard to

work for that way. The most fun I had was when I got to drive a bulldozer through a house in the islands (laughs).” It was one of Coburn's last leading roles.

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