Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins...

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Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Larry Spiegel
Written by Warren Murphy &
Richard Sapir ("The Destroyer" novels)
Christopher Wood (screenplay)
Starring Fred Ward
Joel Grey
Kate Mulgrew
Wilford Brimley
Music by Craig Safan
Cinematography Andrew Laszlo
Editing by Mark Melnick
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Release date(s) October 11, 1985
Running time 121 minutes
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $40,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $12,421,181 (USA)
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American film. The action/adventure film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey and Kate Mulgrew. It was directed by Guy Hamilton. The character is based on The Destroyer pulp paperback series. The movie was the first and only on the big screen featuring the character Remo Williams, and fared poorly in theaters. (A direct-to-video sequel was released in 1987 with a different lead actor.) The film received mixed reviews from critics.[1] The film and a Remo Williams television pilot both had Dick Clark as an executive producer.

[edit] Synopsis

Samuel Edward "Sam" Makin (played by Fred Ward) is a tough street cop recruited as a secret agent through a bizarre method: his death is faked so that there will be no questions asked as to his disappearance. Rechristened "Remo Williams" (after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in Makin's hospital room), his face is surgically altered and he is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged Korean martial arts master Chiun (played by Grey in heavy makeup). Though Remo's training is extremely rushed by Chiun's standards, Remo learns such skills as dodging bullets. The Chiun character, who is stereotypically nationalistic, racist and sexist, is both the comic relief and wise mentor figure in the film. Chiun and Remo practice a fictional form of Korean martial arts named Sinanju. Remo is sent to investigate a corrupt weapons procurement program within the US Army.

[edit] Taglines

  • A hero who doesn't exist must save America from an enemy we never knew we had.
  • It's going to take a dead man to save the country... from a death merchant's dream of destruction.

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