Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (TV 1976)

Oil company executive Wendell Runsler gets abducted by a liberation army group from the Middle East. Shrewd, handsome, and dashing private eye Derek Flint is hired to find Runsler. Flint ... See full summary »

Director:

Joseph L. Scanlan

Writers:

Norman Klenman, Jim McGinn (from a story by),

Stars:

Ray Danton, Sharon Acker, Lawrence Dane

Cast

Cast overview:
Ray Danton	...	Derek Flint
Sharon Acker
Lawrence Dane
Donnelly Rhodes
Gay Rowan	...	Bonita Rogers
Franz Russell
Linda Sorensen
Susan O'Sullivan	...	Executive Assistant (as Susan Sullivan)
Linda Woods
Guy Robinson
Joe Sala
Rex Owen
Spud Nicholson
Lon Katzman
Dennis Kelli

Storyline

Oil company executive Wendell Runsler gets abducted by a liberation army group from the Middle East. Shrewd, handsome, and dashing private eye Derek Flint is hired to find Runsler. Flint teams up with his spunky and eager new partner Bonita Rogers and hits the streets in search of Runsler.

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | spy | punctuation in title | third part | spy hero | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 March 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dead on Target

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Though Ray Danton is billed in the opening credits as "Our Man Flint", the actual on-screen title for the movie is "Dead On Target".

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Quotes

Derek Flint: Listen, if you don't want me, get The Gang - ask for Dead Skunk.

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Connections

Follows Our Man Flint (1966)

User Reviews

Dead On Arrival

If you thought that In Like Flint was a disappointing sequel to Our Man Flint, worse still was to come with busted TV pilot Dead On Target, which scrapes beneath the soil beneath the concrete beneath the bottom of the barrel for something so lazily incompetent it looks like it was made in the stone age with primitive tools. Cheap doesn't cover it. Aside from being shot for next to nothing in Canada with a cast who, for the most part, only recently seem to have mastered the art of connected speech, the film stock is so cheap it looks like it was shot on Super 8mm with sound recorded on a well-used Memorex cassette tape. The same aerial shots of cars driving across the same bridge or along the same road are used over and over again almost as punctuation while in one sequence you can even see the cameraman reflected in the car window more clearly than Flint and his kidnappers. Even the uncredited clumsy wakka-wakka 70s score comes from a music library to save hiring a composer while there aren't even any end credits aside from a copyright notice.

Ray Danton and one of the worst hairstyles in television history share the lead, no longer a superhero super agent but now a very dull private eye with a masseur, a phone answering service and a female apprentice so unflatteringly photographed that in several shots she looks like a man in drag. Unless you count Lawrence Dane, Canada's answer to William Windom, or the actor who played Dutch in Soap, here cast as an Arab terrorist (and his is the best performance), the biggest name in the supporting cast is an unbilled Kim Cattrall, who can briefly be glimpsed for about four seconds as an extra just before the wildly overlong title sequence that is as seemingly endless and clumsily timed as everything else in this horrendous misfire. There is a certain train wreck fascination to it, but it's still a very, very long 74 minutes.