Telephone Assassinations

Sublimal Triggers and assassinations!

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
And I have miles to go,
Before I Sleep..."

Robert Frost's first four lines of his classic poem has been used as a sublimal trigger to provoke action in moles left in the USA before detente between US-USSR took place.

That was the setting for this movie. A revengeful operative who knew of this trigger started phoning moles to blow up old "targets" got both the CIA and the Kremlin riled and confused. So, they dispatched Charlie to get the man and stop the bombings and explosions.

Enter the cherubic and angelic Lee Remick in a more cheerier role. Acting as a double-spy, she was to dispatched off Charlie when he has 'fixed the problem'.

For an old 1970's movie, it may have lost its sting. Be that as it may, interestingly the ending was great.