Telefon - Movie Review

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Charles Bronson is KGB, man! And Lee Remick is a double agent! And together they have to track down KGBer-gone-commando Donald Pleasence, as he reactivates a long-since-abandoned plan to activate sleeper agents in the U.S. and have them blow up a bunch of stuff. This Cold War thriller may not have the most complicated story, but it's curiously effective and has been been surprisingly influential, a nice companion piece to The Manchurian Candidate, another mind controlled-civilians-as-assassins story. Bronson probably does less fighting in this film than in any other film in his career.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1977

Run time: 102 mins

In Theaters: Friday 16th December 1977

Distributed by: MGM Home Entertainment

Production compaines: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 3.5 / 5

IMDB: 6.6 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Don Siegel

Producer: James B. Harris

Screenwriter: Peter Hyams, Stirling Silliphant

Starring: Charles Bronson as Major Grigori Borzov, Lee Remick as Barbara, Donald Pleasence as Nicolai Dalchimsky, Tyne Daly as Dorothy Putterman, Alan Badel as Colonel Malchenko, Patrick Magee as General Strelsky, Sheree North as Marie Wills, Roy Jenson as Doug Stark, John Mitchum as Harry Bascom, Jacqueline Scott as Mrs. Hassler, Frank Marth as Harley Sandburg, Helen Page Camp as Emma Stark, Ed Bakey as Carl Hassler

Also starring: Peter Hyams, Stirling Silliphant