Reluctant Agent (1980)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Reluctant agent |
| Original title | Once Upon a Spy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ivan Nagy |
| script | Jimmy Sangster |
| production | Jay Daniel |
| music | John Cacavas |
| camera | Dennis Dalzell |
| cut |
Bob Fish , William Neel |
| occupation | |
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Agent against his will is an American feature film by Ivan Nagy from the year 1980 . Produced by David Gerber Productions and Columbia Pictures Television, based on a story by Lemuel Pitkin and Jimmy Sangster . The film did not come to cinemas in Germany and was first broadcast on ARD on December 5, 1986 .
action
Jack Chenault works for the secret service, but his job only involves light office work. Then he of all people is given the task of stopping the mad researcher Marcus Valorium. He stole a sophisticated device that allows him to reduce everything to miniature size. That hits first a huge supercomputer from NASA , which the insane genius has stolen in this way. Controlled with it and with a satellite as a reflector, every point on earth can then be reached with the shrinkage beam and the world can be blackmailed with it.
Valorium's next destination is the United States of America. As a show of force, he has an old aircraft carrier serving as a target ship miniaturized to the size of a model ship and also shrunk some nuclear missile silos . Eventually, the villain threatens to downsize the Hoover Dam and cause a devastating flood disaster. With the help of his colleague Paige Tannehill, Chenault manages at the last minute to align the satellite so that the reflected beam hits and destroys the observatory serving as Valorium's headquarters .
criticism
“The secret service hires a small employee from the back office to retrieve a missing electronic super brain. Soon he comes across a megalomaniac scientist who can reduce the largest objects to the size of a matchbox. This is a tolerably entertaining parody made for television of the plot patterns and effects of the agent films à la James Bond. "
background
The film was shot in Houston , Los Angeles and the Burbank Studios in Burbank , California . The Lick Observatory of the University of California with one of the largest telescopes in the world served as the backdrop for the projector of the shrink radiator.
publication
After the German first broadcast on December 5, 1986 on ARD , the film was repeated several times on German television. The English language original version with a length of 91 minutes was released by Columbia Pictures in 1982 as a VHS cassette. In November 2013 it was released on DVD in the NTSC standard. A German-language version has not yet appeared (as of 2019).
Web links
- Agent against his will in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Agent against Will (1980)" on Filmdienst , accessed on February 10, 2019