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Code Name: Diamond Head

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Director
  
Jeannot Szwarc

Genres
  
Action Film, Spy film

Writer
  
Paul King

Language
  
English

2.8/10
IMDb

Producer
  
Quinn Martin

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Code Name: Diamond Head movie poster

Release date
  
1977 (1977)

Cast
  
Roy Thinnes
(Johnny Paul),
France Nuyen
(Tso-Tsing),
Zulu
(Zulu),
Ward Costello
(Captain Macintosh),
Don Knight
(H.K. Muldoon),
Ian McShane
(Sean Donovan / Father Horton / Colonel Millard Butler)

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Code Name: Diamond Head is a 1977 American spy film starring Roy Thinnes as an undercover counterintelligence officer known as Diamond Head whose mission is to stop a rogue double agent from stealing the formula for a new chemical weapon. Originally filmed as a pilot for a new television drama (which was never picked up by the networks), it was eventually used for The NBC Monday Movie on U.S. broadcast network NBC.

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Code name diamond head


Plot

Johnny Paul (Thinnes) arrives in Oahu disguised as a flashy gambler and ladies' man. However, he is actually on a mission to stop the theft of a deadly new gas, which has the potential to cause instant death upon contact. The substance was being secretly created by a top battalion of Marines at the request of a Pentagon official. However, a double agent had infiltrated the unit, killed the executive, and assumed his identity. Paul uses his image to get close to the double agent, who is known by the pseudonym "Tree". However, once his cover is blown, it's a race against time to stop Tree from selling the secrets to an unnamed foreign power.

Cast

  • Roy Thinnes as Johnny Paul "Diamond Head"
  • France Nuyen as Tso-Tsing
  • Gilbert Lani Kauhi as Zulu
  • Ward Costello as Captain Macintosh
  • Don Knight as H.K. Muldoon
  • Ian McShane as Sean Donovan "Tree"
  • Eric Braeden as Ernest Graeber
  • Alex Henteloff as Dr. Edward Sherman
  • Eric Christmas as Father Murphy

    • Response

    The film was featured in a season six episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

    Home media

    The film is currently available only in VHS format. The Mystery Science Theater version was released on March 27, 2012 as part of the 23rd boxset of the series.

    References

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    Code Name: Diamond Head IMDb Code Name: Diamond Head themoviedb.org