Art professor and mountaineer Jonathan Hemlock is a retired government assassin called on to return to work for two more "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. During his career with a secret government agency called "C2", Hemlock amassed a private collection of 21 rare masterpiece paintings, paid for from his previous sanctions. The director of C2, Dragon, is an albino ex-Nazi confined to semi-darkness and kept alive by blood transfusions. Dragon wants Hemlock to kill two men responsible for the death of another government agent, code name Wormwood. Insisting he is retired, Hemlock refuses until Dragon threatens to expose Hemlock's art collection to the Internal Revenue Service. Hemlock agrees, and travels to Zurich, where he carries out the first sanction for $20,000, twice his usual fee (equivalent to $119,000 in 2022), and a letter guaranteeing no trouble from the IRS.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Action, Thriller, Crime |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, Robert Daley |
Directed By: | Clint Eastwood |
Written By: | Hal Dresner, Warren Murphy, Rod Whitaker |
Cast: | Frank Redmond, Brenda Venus, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Walter Kraus, Candice Rialson, Gregory Walcott, Jack Kosslyn, Reiner Schöne, Siegfried Wallach, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Dan Howard, George Kennedy, Michael Grimm, Jack Frey, Thayer David, Clint Eastwood, Elaine Shore, Susan Morgan Cooper, Heidi Brühl |
In Theaters: | May 21, 1975 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 9 minutes |
Production: | The Malpaso Company, Jennings Lang, Universal Pictures |
Budget: | $9,000,000 |
Box Office: | $14,200,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |