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Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes44%
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
136 audience votes
Key crew
- Don SiegelDirector
- Peter HyamsScreenplay
- Stirling SilliphantScreenplay
- Lalo SchifrinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Charles BronsonMajor Grigori Borzov
- Lee RemickBarbara
- Donald PleasenceNicolai Dalchimsky
- Tyne DalyDorothy Putterman
- Alan BadelColonel Malchenko
- Patrick MageeGeneral Strelsky
- Sheree NorthMarie Wills
- Roy JensonDoug Stark
- John MitchumHarry Bascom
- Jacqueline ScottMrs. Hassler
- Frank MarthHarley Sandburg
- Helen Page CampEmma Stark
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookespionagespysoviet unionkgbsecret agentbrainwashingterrorismsabotagepolitical thriller