The Killer Elite (1975) on Netflix
PG19752h 2mActionCrimeThriller
Mike Locken works for ComTeg, a private intelligence agency that takes covert assignments for the CIA. On a job, his friend and partner George Hansen shoots him in the knee and elbow.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb5.9/108,466 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
Mike Locken is a member of a group of freelance spies at Communications Integrity, a private agency that handles covert assignments for the CIA. On one such job, his friend and partner George Hansen shoots him in the knee and elbow and kills the man they were guarding. Locken is nearly crippled. After months of rehabilitation he wears metal braces and walks with a cane, and he trains with the cane. Cap Collis, the agency's deputy director, refuses to send him back into the field.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Killer Elite (1975)
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- The building that explodes in the opening was an abandoned fire-department station on the Embarcadero that the city was demolishing for the Embarcadero Center redevelopment, so Peckinpah changed the shooting schedule to film the real event from the Hyatt Regency San Francisco across the street.
- United Artists head Mike Medavoy gave Sam Peckinpah the film knowing it was virtually impossible for him to get a job with any of the studios, as he had alienated many people in Hollywood, on condition that he work under Medavoy's strict supervision.
- Tiana Alexandra made her film debut after karate expert Hank Hamilton brought her to the producers' attention; a brown belt, she and her husband, writer Stirling Silliphant, were students of Bruce Lee, and one report suggests Silliphant made his own work contingent on her hire.
