“The Chairman” is a spy thriller where Gregory Peck plays a U. S. government agent sent to the People’s Republic of China at the height of the Cold War to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What he does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head, which will be set off if he fails to carry out his mission.
Director J. Lee Thompson (“Cape Fear” 1962) and screenwriter Ben Maddow made a respectable spy picture, without the glitz and glamour of James Bond. “The Chairman” probably suffered in comparison to 007 as it bombed at the box office for APJAC Productions and 20th Century Fox.
Co-stars include Arthur Hill, Anne Heywood, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama, Zienia Merton, Ori Levy, Francesca Tu, Keye Luke, Alan White, Burt Kwock, and Eric Young.
The Chairman (1969)
cinema
My Review
“The Chairman” is a spy thriller where Gregory Peck plays a U. S. government agent sent to the People’s Republic of China at the height of the Cold War to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What he does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head, which will be set off if he fails to carry out his mission.
Director J. Lee Thompson (“Cape Fear” 1962) and screenwriter Ben Maddow made a respectable spy picture, without the glitz and glamour of James Bond. “The Chairman” probably suffered in comparison to 007 as it bombed at the box office for APJAC Productions and 20th Century Fox.
Co-stars include Arthur Hill, Anne Heywood, Alan Dobie, Conrad Yama, Zienia Merton, Ori Levy, Francesca Tu, Keye Luke, Alan White, Burt Kwock, and Eric Young.