Cruise Missile

It was a great campy spy film. I was sad to find out Pouri, the actress who played the undercover police captain, didn't get out of Iran in time and spent a year in Islamic jail and never acted again.

Alberto Baldan Bembo's propulsive score drives this minor West German-Italian-Spanish-Iranian co-production, which features Peter Graves as Alec, a super-agent out to recover the titular weapon of not-quite-but-sorta-kinda mass destruction. It's been stolen from the Soviets by the villainous Baron (Curt Jurgens), a baddie not all that dissimilar from The Spy Who Loved Me's Karl Stromberg. John Carradine also appears as evil scientist Nikolayeff, who's helping the Baron use the purloined missile to upend a peace summit that will presumably take the wind out of his efforts to conquer the world. Can I get a bwa-ha-ha? The film is entertaining enough, though done in at times by some deadly post-syncing that has the volume levels bounce up and down with reckless abandon, and the Tehran location footage fascinating.

Set in Iran just before the revolution,this film is a low budget spy adventure,which I saw as Cruise Missile, that wastes a good cast in a cliched movie.Peter Graves plays an American agent sent to investigate the murder of a fellow agent who was investigating an international businessman known as The Baron,played by Curt Jurgens. The Baron has obtained a Soviet nuclear missile with which he intends to attack an international conference being held in the Persian Gulf.John Carradine had a pointless role as a Russian scientist who was aiding the Baron.It was not his finest hour. The most curious thing though, were all the references through background news broadcasts to the Ayatollah Khomeni causing trouble in Paris. I gave this movie a 4.If you're looking for James Bond or Mission:Impossible(TV) don't see this film.If you want to count cliches you might find this funny.