Code Name: Heraclitus
Code Name: Heraclitus | |
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Written by | Alvin Sapinsley |
Directed by | James Goldstone |
Starring | Stanley Baker Leslie Nielsen Jack Weston Sheree North |
Music by | Johnny Mandel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Jack Laird Gordon Oliver |
Cinematography | Bud Thackery |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Production companies | Morpics Universal |
Original release | |
Release | January 18 January 25, 1967 | –
Code Name: Heraclitus is a 1967 American thriller film starring Stanley Baker and Leslie Nielsen. The film originally was a television pilot[1] that appeared as two episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre on January 18–25, 1967.
Plot
[edit]Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigates the past of Lydia Constantine (Signe Hasso), the widow of secret agent Constantine (Kurt Kasznar). Lydia is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Soviet Union. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to "rebuild" agent Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain. When agent Constantine is "rebuilt" he doesn't remember anything.
Cast
[edit]Stanley Baker : Frank G. Wheatley
Leslie Nielsen : Fryer
Jack Weston : Gerberman
Sheree North : Sally
Kurt Kasznar : Constantine
Signe Hasso : Lydia Constantine
Ricardo Montalbán (credited as Ricardo Montalban) : Janáček
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Terrace, Vincent Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2012 McFarland, 01/01/2013
External links
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- 1967 television films
- 1967 films
- 1960s adventure thriller films
- 1960s spy thriller films
- American adventure thriller films
- American thriller television films
- 1960s English-language films
- American spy thriller films
- Films directed by James Goldstone
- Television films as pilots
- Television pilots not picked up as a series
- 1960s American films
- English-language adventure thriller films
- English-language spy thriller films
- American thriller television film stubs