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Released
1986 · FILM

Iron Eagle

A young man trains to become a fighter pilot to lead a daring mission to bomb a hostile MiG base and rescue his father, a downed Air Force pilot.

“Break the sound barrier.”

Directed by
Sidney J Furie
Written by
Kevin Alyn Elders, Sidney J Furie
Runtime
117 min
ActionThrillerWar
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Doug's father, an Air Force pilot, is shot down by MiGs from a radical Middle Eastern state, and no one appears capable of rescuing him. Doug seeks out Colonel Chappy, an Air Force officer who is intrigued by the idea of sending two fighter jets, piloted by himself and Doug, to bomb the MiG base and attempt to rescue Doug's father.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by George GrenvilleShot by Adam GreenbergScored by Basil PoledourisDesigned by Robb Wilson King

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$24.2M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$24.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.1M — 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.9M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,080 theaters

Also known as

  • Der stählerne Adlerde
  • Aigle de ferfr
  • L'aquila d'acciaioit

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