This film is not exactly literature, but the pacing works. The acting is good, and the characters are well drawn, if not a little too characatured, to coin a term. Bronson plays a Soviet KGB guy who is (naturally) the "only one" the Soviets can rely on to complete the mission. Lee Remick does her best with the script that calls for her to be the CIA agent who is simultaneously hardened/sexy-horny/friendly/sincere/scheming/and afraid. A tough role, but she pulls it together with a pre-Charlie's Angels perfection that is to be admired. Donald Pleasance is the bad guy flying all around the U.S. getting all cast members concerned about potentially unleashing "World War III;" the official fear of the Cold War. The whole plot's an implausible mess, but fun viewing, and certainly no worse than much of what's at the box office 30 years later...
Review of Telefon
