Main Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, Alexandra Stewart
Release Year: 1981
Country: CA
Run Time: 94 minutes
Plot
Agency tackles the question of the efficiency of media manipulation. An unscrupulous advertising agency, in league with equally untrustworthy political campaign manager Robert Mitchum, plants subliminal messages in its TV commercials. Just as Vance Packard warned in the 1950s expose The Hidden Persuaders, these hidden messages persuade the viewers to vote for Mitchum's candidate. Given the potency of the the film's premise, it's disappointing to watch director George Gaczender handle the material (based on a novel by Paul Gottleib) is so cut-and-dried a fashion. But Mitchum is good, as are his costars Valerie Perrine, Lee Majors, Saul Rubinek and Alexandra Stewart. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Hayward Morse - Tony Flynn; Antony Parr - Charlie; Michael Kirby - Peters; Gary Reineke - Jones; George Touliatos - Sgt. Eckersley; John Welsh - Det. Ross; Hugh Webster - Inmate; Franz Russell - George Miller; Eric Donkin - Henry; Arthur Grosser; Walter Massey; Patti Oatman; George Kaczender; Henry Gamer; Malcolm Nelthorpe - Cy; Pierre Sevigny; Michael Short; Denise Vanderberg; Sally Singal; Marilyn Gardner
Credit
Alicia Grunsky - Art Director, Robert Baylis - Associate Producer, Olga Dimitrov - Costume Designer, George Kaczender - Director, Kirk Jones - Editor, George Kaczender - Editor, Peter Wintonick - Editor, Lewis Furey - Composer (Music Score), Bill Brodie - Production Designer, Miklos Lente - Cinematographer, Robert Lantos - Producer, Stephen J. Roth - Producer, Ken Heeley-Ray - Sound Editor, Noel Hynd - Screenwriter, Paul Gottlieb - Screenwriter
