Harold Faltermeyer

Maverick Mitchell is a daring young flyer in the U.S. Navy who is out to become the best of the best at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

Ray Tango and Gabe Cash are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common. Each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene. Unjustly jailed among lowlifes they put behind bars, the two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks, then roar after the shadowy crimelord who set them up.

In San Francisco's early years, the city could not afford enough policemen to protect its population. So the city was divided into districts which were sold to private citizens. Merchants who wanted to, paid these men for police protection. Today, the men and women who own these districts are called Patrol Specials. Needing money, George Kuffs approaches his brother Brad, who runs a Patrol Special district for a loan but agrees to work with him instead....