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6.0/10 • 21

1974-07-241h 29m

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Who will be alive when the hands stop?

Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.

Directors
Ken Hughes
Editors
John Shirley

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  1. James Coburn

    James Coburn

    Robert Elliot

  2. Lee Grant

    Lee Grant

    Jean Robertson

  3. Harry Andrews

    Harry Andrews

    Albert Parsons

  4. Ian Hendry

    Ian Hendry

    Alex Hellman

  5. Michael Jayston

    Michael Jayston

    David Baker

  6. Christiane Krüger

    Christiane Krüger

    Christina Larsson

  7. Keenan Wynn

    Keenan Wynn

    E.J. Farnsworth

  8. Terence Alexander

    Terence Alexander

    Business tycoon

  9. Julian Glover

    Julian Glover

    Arnold Pryce-Jones

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CinemaSerf

Jul 15, 2022

7/10

James Coburn is quite effective in this action thriller. He is "Prof. Elliot", about to become a high ranking government advisor. Snag is, he has quite a past - and so must devise a cunning plan to ensure that all those privy to his dirty laundry are eliminated. The plot utilises quite a clever domino-style effect. Those doing the killing don't know who is instructing them, nor that they won't last much longer themselves, and the pace from director Ken Hughes is well managed eliciting a good effort from both Coburn and from the usually reliable Keenan Wynn ("Farnsworth"). What makes this work is the way the plot draws us in. It's not so much that people are dropping like flies - we neither know them nor care about them - it's more the sheer cleverness of his plan, and I was quietly hoping he would succeed... Unfortunately, the quality of dialogue - an early outing for Barry Levinson - doesn't really add much to the film. It's all just a little bit bland, and I could have been doing with more on screen time from Coburn. Still, it's an interesting and new take on a political thriller that I quite enjoyed for 90 minutes.

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Status
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
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