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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its cool, unsentimental portrait of a professional assassin, punctuated by meticulous operational detail and uneasy mentorship, closely matches the hard-edged covert-work mood of The Killer Elite.
02
Why this pick
A lean, bruising 1970s crime thriller built around a betrayed professional methodically pushing back against an organization, with the same distrustful, stripped-down toughness.
03
Why this pick
For its weary criminal professionals, compromised loyalties, and unusually grounded sense of how dangerous jobs are planned and executed rather than glamorized.
04
Why this pick
Its near-wordless professionalism, nocturnal urban tension, and adversarial cat-and-mouse structure offer a more stylized but similarly spare and unsentimental criminal thriller.
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Why this pick
It shares the period’s muscular, procedural approach to political violence: competing specialists, surveillance, logistics, and escalating tension treated with grave seriousness.
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01 / THE STORY
Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the beginning of the film, Locken and Hansen are helping an East European defector, Vorodny (Helmut Dantine), escape. After delivering the defector to other ComTeg operatives, Locken and Hansen throw a wild party to relax. The next day, they go to a ComTeg safehouse to relieve other agents who have been guarding Vorodny, the defector they previously helped escape.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
MIke Locken
George Hansen
Jerome Miller
Yuen Chung
Mac
O'Leary
Rita
Tao Yi
