On This Day: May 13, 1983 - Blue Thunder Released in Theaters

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On This Day: May 13, 1983 - Blue Thunder Released in Theaters.

On this day May 13, 1983, the action thriller Blue Thunder was released in theaters, delivering a high tech vision of aerial surveillance and militarized policing that captured the imagination of early 80s audiences. Directed by John Badham, the film starred Roy Scheider, Daniel Stern and Malcolm McDowell in a tense story centered around a state of the art helicopter designed for urban crowd control and covert operations.

Blue Thunder combined suspenseful storytelling with cutting edge...

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