Telefon

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Charles Bronson and Don Siegel on the set of the 1977 film.

Based on the 1975 novel by Walter Wager.

An old-timer KGB clerk heads to the US with a top-secret book detailing the whereabouts of 51 brainwashed sleeper agents, planted years earlier during the Cold War, intending to "activate" the agents, who will destroy the US government and begin a new war between the superpowers. One of director Don Siegel's final films before his retirement in the 1980s.

Set in the US and Russia, and shot on location in California, Colorado, Virginia, Montana, and Finland.

8 x 10 inches. A single annotation in manuscript ink underlining Siegel's name on bottom left, else Near Fine.

[Book #151937]