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The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
9.0 / 10• 1972• 1h 18m•NR• English
ActionThrillerCrimeDramaTV Movie
Storyline
The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.
Cast & Crew
Laurence Luckinbill
Glenn Garth Gregory
Lead
Celeste Holm
Sybil Van Loween
Dean Jagger
Matthew Keller
Cameron Mitchell
Stokely
Bradford Dillman
Randy Jamison
Bob Crane
Charlie Taggert
Joanna Pettet
April Thompson
David Sheiner
Joe Dobkin
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Paul Wendkos's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
