Agent for H.A.R.M.

Agent for H.A.R.M.

Infobox Film
name = Agent for H.A.R.M.


caption = Theatrical release poster.
director = Gerd Oswald
producer = Joseph F. Robertson
writer = Blair Robertson
starring = Peter Mark Richman
Carl Esmond
music = Gene Kauer
Douglas M. Lackey
cinematography = James Crabe
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = January 5 1966
runtime = 84 minutes
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:83316
imdb_id = 0060074

Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 science fiction spy thriller directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Peter Mark Richman. It is one of a number of spy thrillers of the time which have conspicuous sci-fi elements. In this case it is the inclusion of deadly spores which turn people into creatures made of fungus.

It was originally intended that this film would act as the television pilot for a new spy series. However, it was later decided that it should be given a theatrical release instead.

Plot

Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman), works for an American agency, H.A.R.M. (Human Aetiological Relations Machine). He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with skin slowly eat the body away.

Following Dr Steffanic's arrival in the US he is taken into protective custody by H.A.R.M. and is placed in a beach house along with his niece and Agent Chance to develop a spore antidote. Here he reveals the communists' real plan, which is to dust all of the American crops with these deadly spores. During their time at this house Chance falls for Steffanic's niece Ava Vestok (Barbara Bouchet), who is later revealed to be a communist spy. After the flat is attacked, Dr Steffanic is kidnapped by European spies and taken to a warehouse. Chance eventually rides in and a gun fight ensues in which Steffanic is exposed to the deadly spores in a valiant sacrifice, and dies.

Cast

Trivia

* Aetiology is a British variant of etiology which is the branch of medical science concerned with causes and origins of diseases.
* In 1997, "Agent for H.A.R.M." was featured on movie-mocking television show "Mystery Science Theater 3000", as experiment (episode) #815.
* A series of webcomics by John Troutman feature Felicity Flint, Agent from H.A.R.M.
* The computer game No One Lives Forever features an organization known as H.A.R.M. What this stands for is never made clear although it is the subject of a number of jokes throughout the series.

References

External links

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* [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/aceg/8/815/ep815.html MST3K Episode Guide: Agent for H.A.R.M.]


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