Telefon

Dec 16, 1977

1h 42m

★ 6.6

They'll do anything to stop Telefon. The operation that can trigger 51 human time bombs.

Overview

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

Genres

Thriller

Action

Crime

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Telefon Trailers

Cast

Major Grigori Borzov

Charles Bronson

Barbara

Lee Remick

Nicolai Dalchimsky

Donald Pleasence

Dorothy Putterman

Tyne Daly

Colonel Malchenko

Alan Badel

General Strelsky

Patrick Magee

Marie Wills

Sheree North

Doug Stark

Roy Jenson

Harry Bascom

John Mitchum

Mrs. Hassler

Jacqueline Scott

Harley Sandburg

Frank Marth

Emma Stark

Helen Page Camp

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