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2 unusual facts about The Falcon and the Snowman


The Falcon and the Snowman

The film is based upon the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song "This Is Not America", written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.

Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconry—thus, the nickname "Falcon"—gets a job at a civilian defense contractor (TRW, called "RTX" in the movie) working in the so-called "Black Vault," a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified U.S. operations in the world.



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