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Agent for H.A.R.M.

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Agent for H.A.R.M.	comment	Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 American spy thriller directed by Gerd Oswald.The plot concerns the development and distribution of a biological warfare compound referred to as "spore." Said spore turns humans into "living fungus" rather quickly and is apparently painless. Comrade Basil Malko (Martin Kosleck) is developing the spore to destroy the population of the United States by dusting the crops. The only man that can stop him is Dr. Jan Stefánik (Carl Esmond), a biologist who has recently defected from behind the Iron Curtain.Shortly after Stefánik’s arrival in the United States, his assistant is killed at his makeshift lab outside San Diego, so the eponymous H.A.R.M. sends one of its agents, Adam Chance (Mark Richman), to help protect the scientist. Unfortunately, there's various and sundry baddies led by the evil Malko, who would love nothing more than to turn Stefánik into guacamole.The film was originally intended as a television pilot, but was inexplicably given a theatrical release instead. Even the director was surprised.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page.Has noting to do with No One Lives Forever, despite sharing a villainous organization called H.A.R.M.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: As Stefanik and Malko are arguing at the climax, Malko looks into the distance and suddenly gets a surprised look on his face. Stefanik, thinking it's Chance come to rescue him, also turns to look. Cue Spaz Chop!
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: The spore guns in the movie. They shoot spores.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_1c20b1ac	type	ThePilot
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_1c20b1ac	comment	The Pilot: At least this was the original plan; the movie was meant to pitch an idea for a spy television show, but at the last minute the producers decided to release it theatrically instead.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Done quite subtly in the opening scene. Dr. Steffanic's friend, who was supposed to smuggle him out of Russia, betrays him instead and shoots his assistant in the face with a spore gun. Stefanik wrestles with the man and beats him, taking the gun in the process, but declines to shoot the man, instead deliberately smearing his opponent's hand over the infected spot on his dead assistant's face, so that he'll dissolve slowly from his hand up. One Hell of a way to go, even for a traitor.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Since Ava was stupid enough to register for the Vienna Archery Competition using her real name, Adam easily caught her...after it was too late to actually do much. By that point she'd pretty much done everything she set out to do short of killing Adam and/or escaping. So both of these morons get a round of applause for their ineptitude at their jobs.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Adam Chance, definitely.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_38d02d44	comment	She's arrested for assaulting Adam after he did so, so it was more of a Batman Gambit by Adam.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_40582f4b	type	Guttural Growler
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_40582f4b	comment	Guttural Growler: Adam does this when attacking the henchman in the car. He was probably speaking weird because he was straining with the coat hanger, but it was still weird.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Very heavy on the bitter. Adam manages to stop the villain's plan to dust American crops with the poisonous spores, but that's about all that goes right. Adam fails to find an antidote to the spore, he fails to protect Jan Stefanik, and he fails to notice that Eva is The Molenote Maybe. The film hints Adam knew earlier and let her think he didn't. until after she'd already killed two people. He did manage to save potentially millions of lives, but it's hard to think about that when you've just watched the pretty girl get arrested and the likeable old scientist get melted into slime.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Adam's extended "apple pie" metaphor is a little... opaque. And not nearly as cool-sounding as he thinks.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_4e2d95e	type	Thanks for the Mammary
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_4e2d95e	comment	Thanks for the Mammary: Adam appears to accidentally cop a feel of Ava. It's actually just the camera angle that makes it look that way.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Our hero, unfortunately.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The spore infects living flesh in a disturbing, pulsating way.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Or rather, Sacrificial Lamb of Another Story. Adam's first meeting with Da Chief is suddenly interrupted by a distress call from another agent, who is swiftly killed. Adam's ready to go, but his boss already has him assigned to the spore case; he tells his secretary to assign another agent to clean up after the dead one.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_634c5775	type	Came from the Sky
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_634c5775	comment	Came from the Sky: A bit of exposition near the beginning of the film explains that the spore was collected from a meteor that fell somewhere in the Soviet Union.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_6cb4cb70	type	Improperly Placed Firearms
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_6cb4cb70	comment	Improperly Placed Firearms: During the Cold Open, a Soviet border guard chases Stefanik with a Colt M16 assault rifle. Not only is it a distinctly American firearm, but at the time it had only been in military service for a year at most, making its appearance here even more implausible. Doubles as Product Placement, as the credits specially thank Colt for supplying the film's firearms.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: As it says on the poster shown above: "They used the world's deadliest weapons against this super-secret agent! ...Women! ...Women! ...Women!" There's actually only ONE female main character, and Adam doesn't seem to be all that interested in her. She never even deploys her sexuality against Adam directly, she just prances around pretending to be innocent while covertly informing the bad guys of his every move.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_7dca00c0	type	Duel of Seduction
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_7dca00c0	comment	Duel of Seduction: Though Ava and Adam flirt with each other throughout the movie, there's no proper attempt to get anything out of each other until the end of the film as Adam basically slathers himself all over Ava while she tries to use her sex appeal to get him not to arrest her. Up until this point, Adam wasn't even aware of her being The Mole. Also Conversed in an early scene with Adam explaining to a female agent that she shouldn't rely on charm to get by as she's liable to get her head blown off. He then orders her to go to the "Judo Range."
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: Malko's minions include a guy that bears an uncanny resemblance to Prince and an odd Englishman.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: While the modest cast list prevents him from racking up a significant bodycount, Adam is still pretty nonchalant when it comes to killing. At one point he sets up a lethal electric trap on Dr. Stefanik's door, which anyone could have blundered into, and he shoots two henchman who were trying to escape... even James Bond only kills when the situation demands it! Dr. Stefanik as well. He smears his traitorous friend with spores at the beginning of the movie, and later makes a point of dumping spores on Malko, getting himself dusted with them too in the process.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: A meta-example. The poster for the film — which you can see at the top of this page — misspells lead actor Peter Mark Richman's name as "Mark Richmond."
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Ava, who spends a good deal of the movie in a bikini.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: One of the characters is knocked out with a chop to the neck. This was later featured as the stinger in the MST treatment of the movie.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_b5785433	comment	Cold Open: The film opens on Stefanik's escape from Southern California—err, behind the Iron Curtain.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bb222e09	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bb222e09	comment	Danger Takes A Back Seat: Adam strangles one of Malko's cronies with a wire hanger from the back of the van he's driving.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Ava's real name. Even given that Chance called the Vienna Archery Competition to verify it, it's played as a damning self-incrimination when he addresses her with her real name and she responds. Despite the fact that they are completely alone in the room. She's arrested for assaulting Adam after he did so, so it was more of a Batman Gambit by Adam.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: In sharp contrast to Eva, Chance gets off some truly implausible shots using a pistol small enough to have a key ring attached.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bfb14b83	type	Useless Protagonist
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_bfb14b83	comment	Useless Protagonist: Adam doesn't do much of anything aside from killing a couple henchmen and getting tricked. He doesn't even save the day.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Of the Desperately Shoehorned variety. H.A.R.M. stands for Human Aetiological Relations Machine. For the record, aetiology is the study of causation and origins of diseases. That explains why they're investigating the spores, but "Relations Machine" is pure nonsense.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The film reveals quite early that Ava is The Mole.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Subverted. Ava is supposedly an expert archer and also claims to know about biochemistry. The latter was almost certainly a lie, and as for the former... Adam actually Lampshades her terrible archery skills at the end of the movie, after she shoots at him and misses from almost point-blank-range.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: The "judo range".
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: As mentioned in Danger Takes A Back Seat, at one point Adam strangles a henchman with a coat hanger from the back of his van, then jumps out just before the van goes off a cliff and catches fire. Somehow, this henchman survives that, only to be killed by Adam's electrified door trap later. (You'd be forgiven for not realizing it's the same guy, though, as the actor is so bland-looking and the comment from Adam confirming it is blink-and-you'll-miss-it quick. It also doesn't help that there actually are two nearly-identical blond, Aryan-esque henchmen; both are briefly onscreen together just prior to the aforementioned Danger Takes A Back Seat moment.)
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Ava, who is pretending to be Steffanic's niece. She's really a Soviet spy working for Malko.
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Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
Agent for H.A.R.M. / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: Adam strangles one of Malko's henchmen using a coat hangar as a makeshift garrote. Later on he kills a henchman using an electric trap made by wiring Stefanik's television to his doorknob.
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