Birds of Prey is a 1973 television film[2] directed by William A. Graham and starring David Janssen, Ralph Meeker, and Elayne Heilveil.

While flying his helicopter, Harry Walker observes an armed robbery of an armored car at the Zion's Bank in downtown Salt Lake City in which bearded men gun down the guards and grab a canvas sack of currency, then grab a female hostage and shove her into their getaway car.

Walker then pursues the car, while McAndrew informs him that fingerprints have identified two of the robbers as former Marines who served in Vietnam and they surmise that the chopper pilot is similarly experienced.

Birds of Prey was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah,[4] with final scenes shot at the recently closed Wendover Air Force Base, where the 509th Composite Group prepared for their atomic bomb missions in World War II with their Silverplate Boeing B-29 Superfortresses.

[5] In one technically challenging scene, two helicopters flew within feet of each other inside a hangar, a feat that pilots and aeronautical engineers considered so dangerous that it had not been tried before.