Leslie Nielsen as a spy? Before the naked gun, he was the gun.
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Acting
Stanley Baker's brooding amnesiac vs. Nielsen's icy handler.
Direction
Goldstone crams a feature's worth of paranoia into one hour.
Production
Swinging '67 aesthetics with actual practical spy craft.
Director
James Goldstone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This NBC TV movie arrived at peak Cold War paranoia, when spy fiction dominated every screen.
Signe Hasso was a genuine Swedish film star who fled Nazi Germany; her presence adds eerie authenticity to the European espionage scenes.
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