Operation CIA
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Country United States | 4.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 1965 (1965-09) Screenplay Bill S. Ballinger, Peer J. Oppenheimer Cast (Mark Andrews, CIA), (Kim-Chinh), Danielle Aubry (Denise), Cyril Collick (Withers), Bill Catching (Frank Decker), (Wells)Similar movies Jumpin' Jack Flash , Mission: Impossible II , Mission: Impossible , Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit , Spy , The Sum of All Fears Tagline Our C.I.A. man in Saigon ... The hottest spot on Earth! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operation C.I.A. is a 1965 black-and-white spy film directed by Christian Nyby and stars Burt Reynolds.
Contents
Premise
Secret Agent Mark Andrews arrives for Saigon to prevent the assassination of the American Ambassador.
Cast
Burt Reynolds as Mark Andrews C.I.A
John Hoyt as Wells
Kieu Chinh as Kim-Chinh
Danielle Aubry as Denise
Cyril Collick as Withers
William Catching as Frank Decker
Vic Diaz as Professor Yen
Marsh Thomson as Stacey
Production
The film was originally titled Last Message from Saigon with an announcement made in 1964 it would be filmed in Saigon, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Allied Artists filmed A Yank in Viet-Nam on actual South Vietnamese locations, but the security situation had deteriorated to such an extent that the safety of the filmmakers could not be guaranteed.
"I got to fight a boa constrictor and he gave the best performance in the movie," said Reynolds.
In popular culture
Operation C.I.A. was referenced in the Archer episode "The Man from Jupiter", in which Reynolds makes a guest appearance as himself. Sterling Archer claims the film inspired him to become a secret agent, to which Reynolds replies "that film was god-awful."
References
Operation C.I.A. WikipediaOperation C.I.A. IMDb Operation C.I.A. themoviedb.org