Agency (1981)
- Starring:
- Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Kaczender
- Category:
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Agency tackles the question of the efficiency of media manipulation. An unscrupulous advertising agency, in league with equally untrustworthy political campaign manager Robert Mitchum, plants subliminal messages in its TV commercials. Just as Vance Packard warned in the 1950s expose The Hidden Persuaders, these hidden messages persuade the viewers to vote for Mitchum's candidate. Given the potency of the the film's premise, it's disappointing to watch director George Gaczender handle the material (based on a novel by Paul Gottleib) is so cut-and-dried a fashion. But Mitchum is good, as are his costars Valerie Perrine, Lee Majors, Saul Rubinek and Alexandra Stewart. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 94 mins
Complete Cast:
- Robert Mitchum - Ted Quinn
- Valerie Perrine - Brenda Wilcox
- Alexandra Stewart - Mimi Oliveri
- Antony Parr - Charlie
- Gary Reineke - Jones
- John Welsh - Det. Ross
- Franz Russell - George Miller
- Henry Gamer
- Denise Vanderberg
- Sally Singal
- Malcolm Nelthorpe - Cy
- Walter Massey
- Arthur Grosser
- Lee Majors - Philip Morgan
- Saul Rubinek - Sam Goldstein
- Hayward Morse - Tony Flynn
- Michael Kirby - Peters
- George Touliatos - Sgt. Eckersley
- Hugh Webster - Inmate
- Eric Donkin - Henry
- Pierre Sevigny
- Marilyn Gardner
- Michael Short
- George Kaczender
- Patti Oatman
- Director(s):
- George Kaczender
- Writer(s):
- Noel Hynd, Paul Gottlieb
- Producer(s):
- Stephen J. Roth, Robert Lantos
- Categories:
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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