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Plot: Charles Bronson stars as ace KGB agent Col. Grigori Borzov in Don Siegel's adaptation of Walter Wager's Cold War thriller. It seems that in the 1950s, at the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union p...( read more read more... )lanted a network of agents in the United States. They were programmed, under hypnosis, to blow up key military installations when activated by hearing a line from a Robert Frost poem. In the 1970s, Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence), a fanatical KGB agent, has decided to begin activating this network. The Kremlin, which had no awareness of the program, finally grasps what has happened after a series of explosions occurs at abandoned U.S. installations. Realizing that they can't reveal the problem to U.S. officials, they choose to send their best agent, Borzov, to stop Dalchimsky before he starts WWIII. Along the way Bronson is forced to work with another KGB intelligence officer, Barbara (Lee Remick), who proves to be a double agent, as well as accepting help from computer expert Dorothy Putterman (Tyne Daly). Solid evidence that at the height of his box-office appeal Bronson could have gotten a seed catalog made into a big-budget movie, the film likely suffered from its tumultous production history, showing little of Siegel's signature style. On the bright side, Daly scores as a techie, and Bronson, mercifully, makes absolutely no attempt at a Russian accent.

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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 17, 2008
    Assassins living as normal Americans are programed to kill when they are given a certain phrase (I'll think of the word later and replace this... what the hell is the word I'm looking for? Let's just say a "trigger" word). Like Manchurian Candidate if Bronson had been there to kick all kinds of ass.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 27, 2007
    A rather flat and dour cold war thriller starring a rather flat and dour Charles Bronson as a Russian agent sent to kill a cell of sleeper agents who are activated by a fanatical Stalinist. It's an interesting idea, but none of Siegel's trademark intensity and panache is in evidence and Bronson is at his least charismatic.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 25, 2007
    Très bon thriller (ancien, certes, mais très bon néanmoins) avec Charles Bronson à l'époque des conflits entre USA et URSS.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 3, 2007
    Gets kind of slow, but it's a cool idea and there's some hella badass elements here and there. Love the Donald Pleasance character and the tension in which his scenes are protrayed. Charles Bronson as a Rooskie, though? Phew. :P

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  • Rated: (PG)
  • Directed by: Don Siegel
  • Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Action & Adventure
  • Released: January 1, 1977
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