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- Categories:Size, Movie
- (C) 9/19/80, 97 mins, Cast: Christopher Lee (and many unidentified
co-horts), Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Made for TV Movie, Columibia
Picures Television, originally broadcast on ABC, also known as
LETHAL GAMES
Description
Ted Danson starred in this made for TV movie as computer nerd Jack
Chenault working for the government who is called to active duty as
a secret agent against his will by gorgeous operative Paige
Tannehill (Mary Louise Weller). It seems that a master criminal of
the James Bond variety, Marcus Valorium (Christopher Lee), has been
stealing all sorts of huge devices -- and even buildings! --
without leaving behind a trace of how he does it. The secret is
that he has a working shrink ray, with which he intends to hold the
world hostage. Jack and Paige and a couple of other good guys/gals
sneak into the huge complex from which Valorium is making his
ranson demands. In order to prove his power, Valorium sets up the
laser-like shrinking machine to miniaturize Hoover Dam and cause
massive flooding. At the last instant, Jack manages to reset the
aiming of the device and then escape the compound along with his
companions. The shrinking ray shoots straight up into space, where
it is reflected off of a passing satellite (as Jack planned) and
returns to hit the compound dead-on. Valorium and all of his
numerous hench-persons (many of whom are beautiful young women) are
instantly reduced so small that they become invisible to the naked
eye. But they aren't shrunken into nothing: Jack stares down at the
apparently bare ground and comments that now Valorium has an
entirely new world to try to conquer. The movie varied between
action/adventure and rather forced comedy, but it is fun overall,
and Mary Louise Weller will know your eyes out in her shiny, tight
spandex outfits. This was a pilot for a series which never sold.
originally posted by Macaroni on 2002-05-19, no edits, entryid=4387
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