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1975 • 2h 2min • PG • Action, Thriller, Crime

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"They protect us from the enemy, but who protects us from them?"

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

IMDb 6.0

RT 54%

MC 57

Director

Sam Peckinpah

Writers

Marc Norman

Stirling Silliphant

Robert Syd Hopkins

Composer

Jerry Fielding

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James Caan

Mike Locken

Robert Duvall

George Hansen

Arthur Hill

Cap Collis

Bo Hopkins

Jerome Miller

Mako

Yuen Chung

Burt Young

Mac

Gig Young

Lawrence Weyburn

Tom Clancy

O'Leary

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Bo Hopkins Jerome Miller

Mako Yuen Chung

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Gig Young Lawrence Weyburn

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Walter Kelley Walter

Kate Heflin Amy

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