The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

• Directors: Bob Wynn; Robert Wynn
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Action
• Movie Type: Paranoid Thriller, Political Thriller
• Themes: Conspiracies
• Main Cast: Jim Healey, Richard Schuyler
• Release Year: 1971
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Television newsman Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) holds fast to the maxim "seeing is believing" in this political/medical thriller, with science-fiction overtones. Harry saw a well-known U.S. Senator (Bradford Dillman) have a car accident, and took video coverage on the scene. When he arrives at the hospital to follow up on the story, he is told that no such person is, or ever was there. Since the senator is a presidential hopeful, this is a very important story, and Harry keeps at it. His TV station, which ran a report on the accident, retracts the story with an apology when the senator's office calls with the story that the senator is on a fishing trip. Harry doesn't believe it. In a parallel story, the senator wakes up in a hospital with all sorts of transplanted organs, etc., when he should simply be dead. He discovers that his survival is part of a worldwide medical blackmail scheme involving world political leaders. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jack Carter - Dwight Childs; James Daly - Dr. Redding; Angie Dickinson - Dr. Johnson; Bradford Dillman - Senator Zachary Wheeler; Don Haggerty - Jake; Jill Jaress; Peter Mamakos; Ruben Moreno; Leslie Nielsen - Harry Walsh; Pat O'Moore; Bob Wilke - Hugh Fielding; Lee Giroux; Dick Simmons; Jim Healey; Richard Schuyler; Lew Brown

Credit

George Fenaja - First Assistant Director, Bob Wynn - Director, Robert Wynn - Director, Fred W. Berger - Editor, Marlin Skiles - Composer (Music Score), Bob Boatman - Cinematographer, Robert W. Stabler - Producer, Tom Rolf - Screenwriter, Jay Simms - Screenwriter

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