The Ultimate Impostor

The Ultimate Impostor

1979 · 97 min · ★ 6.5 · Action, TV Movie

A series pilot about a secret agent who is armed with skills learned by a computer-brain link-up -- lasting only 72 hours at a time -- and is sent to rescue a Russian submarine commander, a defector who has been kidnapped by an agent for another nation.

Directed by Paul Stanley · Written by W.T. Zacha

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