- Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel
- Directors: Don Siegel
- Format: PAL, HiFi Sound, Full Screen
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- VHS Release Date: 22 Sep 1997
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CK52
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,926 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Format:VHS Tape
Most other movies which were inspired on the cold war were from the view of "our side" this one was inspired on the Russian KGB side.
I've seen this movie a lot of times on tv, and it is one of the best.
The story line is like that of a thriller, ordinary people who can be triggered with one sentence into dangerous terrorists and do what they were programmed to do. And that the list of these poeple fell in the wrong hands.
Well a good storyline is not all, it has to be worked out well also.
And they did that, the suspense is building up slowely, first finding the agents and stopping them and then finding the person who triggers them.
Ofcourse this goes with a lot of action, but not to much to forget the story, Most movies make that mistake nowadays.
Let's say it's an action movie with also a good storyline.
Charles Bronsen puts down an excellent Grigori Borzov.
And makes this movie a true timeless masterpiece.
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An interesting film, firmly based in the Soviet/American cold war days, about seemingly ordinary Americans, who are in fact Russian agents. They have been programmed to react to certain phrases from a poem, spoken to them over the phone, to destroy what were American key defence sites in the 1950's. A rogue soviet agent, played with his usual sinister demeanour by Donald Pleasance, has started to activate the dormant agents by ringing them with the poem, so that mayhem starts to erupt. The Soviet High Command realize pretty quickly what is happening, and send Charles Bronson to eliminate Pleasance, or anybody else who gets in the way. Lee Remick, in a soviet sleeper agent role, helps Bronson track Pleasance down, and Pleasance is eventually killed just before he is able to activate another brainwashed agent over the phone.
The numerous action scenes are handled with panache, and the first three quarters of the film are hard to fault, considering the fim is now 35 years old. It's a shame then, that the film actually ends with a whimper rather than a bang.
An interesting film, firmly based in the Soviet/American cold war days, about seemingly ordinary Americans, who are in fact Russian agents. They have been programmed to react to certain phrases from a poem, spoken to them over the phone, to destroy what were American key defence sites in the 1950's. A rogue soviet agent, played with his usual sinister demeanour by Donald Pleasance, has started to activate the dormant agents by ringing them with the poem, so that mayhem starts to erupt. The Soviet High Command realize pretty quickly what is happening, and send Charles Bronson to eliminate Pleasance, or anybody else who gets in the way. Lee Remick, in a soviet sleeper agent role, helps Bronson track Pleasance down, and Pleasance is eventually killed just before he is able to activate another brainwashed agent over the phone.
The numerous action scenes are handled with panache, and the first three quarters of the film are hard to fault, considering the fim is now 35 years old. It's a shame then, that the film actually ends with a whimper rather than a bang.
Format:VHS Tape
It begins with Charles Bronson being told that Soviet
Agents placed in the US twenty years ago,are still
there.They are agents who don't even know that they
are agents.Now some disgruntled Soviet Scientist
donald Pleasance
has gone to the US and is activating those agents
by phone, by using a line from a Robert Frost poem.
Bronson's job is to go to the states and find this
nut case before he starts ww3.He teams up with
soviet spy Lee Remick who has been living in the states for years.Unknown to Bronson,Remick is a double agent
and is keeping tabs on Bronson for the US.She is told
that when Bronson completes his task,that she is to kill
him.Can't say more as it would spoil the story.
Look for Tyne Daly as a computer nerd with a photographic
memory.She is terrific.
DVDDIVA
Please bring it out on dvd
Agents placed in the US twenty years ago,are still
there.They are agents who don't even know that they
are agents.Now some disgruntled Soviet Scientist
donald Pleasance
has gone to the US and is activating those agents
by phone, by using a line from a Robert Frost poem.
Bronson's job is to go to the states and find this
nut case before he starts ww3.He teams up with
soviet spy Lee Remick who has been living in the states for years.Unknown to Bronson,Remick is a double agent
and is keeping tabs on Bronson for the US.She is told
that when Bronson completes his task,that she is to kill
him.Can't say more as it would spoil the story.
Look for Tyne Daly as a computer nerd with a photographic
memory.She is terrific.
DVDDIVA
Please bring it out on dvd
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