| Synopsis: Don Siegel took over the directing chores from Peter Hyams on this taut cold war action film, based on the novel by Walter Wager. With the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union thawing, old KGB hard-liner Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence) activates a group of Americans who were brainwashed twenty years earlier to blow up United States defenses when a passage from a Robert Frost poem is recited to them. When bombs go off at an abandoned United States defense installation, the ... Full Synopsis
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| This Cold War thriller has plenty of spy intrigue and action yet is strangely uninvolving. The reason for this problem lies in Telefon's script, which focuses on plot at the expense of characterization: The viewer never gets a chance to understand what drove Dalchimsky to his genocidal mania or why Borzov struggles to avoid any personal involvements in his life. As a result, the film's array of twists ... Read Review | |
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