The Delta Factor (1970)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Tay Garnett

Writers:

Tay Garnett (writer)
Mickey Spillane (novel)

Release Date:

1 January 1976 (Mexico)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

Mickey Spillane. His Gut-Rupping! ... Face Splattering! ... Adventure Turns a Carribean Paradise Into a Bullet-Riddled Island of Hell!

Plot:

Yvette Mimieux and Christopher George portray two CIA Agents on a seceret mission to rescue a scientist imprisoned by terrorists on a remote island.

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Mission | Island | Rescue | Scientist

Cast

Christopher George	...	Morgan
Yvette Mimieux	...	Kim Stacy
Diane McBain	...	Lisa Gordot
Ralph Taeger	...	Art Keefer
Yvonne De Carlo	...	Valerie
Sherri Spillane	...	Rosa
Ted de Corsia	...	Ames
Rhodes Reason	...	Dr. Fredericks
Joseph Sirola	...	Sal Dekker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miguel Alvarez
Axel Anderson
Mauricio Bustamante
Caren Chatham
Georgine Darcy
Marshall Fallwell Jr.
Francine Farrar
Gary Gober
Valerie Hawkins
Leslie Jameson
Leslie McRae
Robert Milton
Rubin Ruskin
Sam Tarpley
Elizabeth Thompson
Ray Tostada
Robert J. Visciglia Sr.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Hello auteur theory!

Tay Garnett was never a pantheon director in the true sense of the word, but at the height of canonisation his name was mentioned. He was a workmanlike director of entertaining pictures peaking in the forties.

The Delta Factor underlines the collectiveness of Hollywood filmmaking: when Garnett was at his best he had a good script and the best crew the studios could offer. Also the help of charismatic stars must be remembered. Garnett then operated as a sort of "foreman" to keep everything in schedule and producers happy.

In the fifties the auteur theorists (Truffaut, Sarris) tried to attribute the good things in cinema to the personal talents of the director, thus helping to create myth of a film director as an artists comparable to novelists or painters.

The Delta Factor is a low budget effort made late in Garnett's career. He has also adapted the screenplay and produced the piece. The result is disappointing. Not much talent is evident in the finished product. The only redeeming feature is the car chase towards the end which is technically above the level of the rest of the film.

Watch this and remember Truffaut!