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Mood:
- Suspenseful
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Plot:
- Government AgencySecret AgentsSpecial AgentsEspionageRace Against TimeTerrorismHeroic MissionChases and Races more...
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Genres:
- ActionThriller
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- RussiaUSA
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticFast
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Telefon, 1977
English
USA
Profile of Telefon
The mood of Telefon is suspenseful. The plot centers around special agents, a government agency, and espionage. It is a thriller and action movie. In approach, Telefon is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. The setting is Russia and the USA. Telefon happens in the 20th century. It is based on a book. It is especially suggested for a boys' night.
Summary of Telefon
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 planted 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 December 1977 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
Cast and Crew
as Major Grigori Borzov
as Barbara
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