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The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

19721h 18mNR

Overview

The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.

Directed by Paul Wendkos
Written by Sam Rolfe
Produced by Sam Rolfe
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Top Cast

Laurence Luckinbill

Laurence Luckinbill

Glenn Garth Gregory

Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm

Sybil Van Loween

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

Matthew Keller

Cameron Mitchell

Cameron Mitchell

Stokely

Bradford Dillman

Bradford Dillman

Randy Jamison

Bob Crane

Bob Crane

Charlie Taggert

Joanna Pettet

Joanna Pettet

April Thompson

David Sheiner

David Sheiner

Joe Dobkin

Lucille Benson

Lucille Benson

Mrs. Loveless

F

Frank Marth

Sheriff Morgan

Themes & Keywords

tv pilotspies

About The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment is a action, thriller, crime, drama, tv movie film released in 1972 exploring themes of tv pilot, spies. Directed by Paul Wendkos, it stars Laurence Luckinbill, Celeste Holm, Dean Jagger. The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.

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