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Jay Simms (writer) &
Tom Rolf (writer)
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Release Date:
November 1971 (USA) more
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A secret government clinic of intrigue and murder, where men played for the highest of stakes - ETERNAL LIFE.
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A reporter uncovers an amazing medical plot. full summary | add synopsis
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Pretty good for its day - thought provoking now, three decades on! more (7 total)

Cast

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Leslie Nielsen ... Harry Walsh
Bradford Dillman ... Sen. Clayton Zachary Wheeler
James Daly ... Dr. Redding

Angie Dickinson ... Dr. Layle Johnson

Robert J. Wilke ... Hugh Fielding
Jack Carter ... Dwight Chiles
Don Haggerty ... Jake
Lew Brown ... Collins
Richard Schuyler ... Bates
Dick Simmons ... Adams
William Bryant ... Craig Harmon
Tristram Coffin ... Dr. Keating (as Tris Coffin)
Peter Mamakos ... Premier Mabulla
Ruben Moreno ... General Muñoz
Steve Cory ... Carson
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100 min
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Pretty good for its day - thought provoking now, three decades on!, 15 August 2002
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

Elements of COMA and THE SIXTH DAY here, basically the moral, social and scientific implications behind cloning. Perhaps even more relevant today given the arguments being bandied about in the public forum for and against stem-cell research.

Dying Senator Zachary Wheeler is whisked into a government-funded and hushed-up medical facility in "no questions asked" Mexico for "treatment." Reporter Nielsen smells a story - the "scoop" of the century as it turns out!

Without giving too much away, the basic premise turns out to be assembly-line cloning for random organ donation or whatever spare parts are needed - remarkably similar in ethical background to the entire stem-cell debate.

Thinking persons' sci-fi.

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