A Secret Agent searches for a sunken treasure of rare coins. He must battle a Nazi who is also searching for the treasure, and is helped by a ten-year-old genius who builds electronic weapons for him.
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Title: Massarati and the Brain (TV Movie 1982)
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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Daniel Pilon | ... | Mas Massarati | |
| Peter Billingsley | ... | Christopher 'The Brain' Massarati | |
| Christopher Hewett | ... | Anatole | |
| Markie Post | ... | Julie Ramsdell | |
| Ann Turkel | ... | Wilma Hines / Diana Meridith (impostor) | |
| Camilla Sparv | ... | Dorothea | |
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Kathryn Witt | ... | Diana Meridith (real) |
| Christopher Lee | ... | Victor Leopold | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Greta Blackburn | ... | Sharon | |
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Yukio G. Collins | ... | Yukio |
| Kaz Garas | ... | Nick Henry | |
| Jeff Imada | ... | Sushi | |
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Gail Jensen | ... | Camille Henry |
| Heather O'Rourke | ... | Skye Henry | |
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Ricky Supiran | ... | Rocky Henry |
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A Secret Agent searches for a sunken treasure of rare coins. He must battle a Nazi who is also searching for the treasure, and is helped by a ten-year-old genius who builds electronic weapons for him.
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26 August 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Yet another made-for-TV espionage thriller – after the recently-viewed ONCE UPON A SPY, also with Christopher Lee, and S*H*E* (both 1980) – with an even more comical and juvenile bent, considering that the "Brain" of the title is no more than a whizz kid of 10! Lee dispensed with his moustache for this one but not his wicked ways – he plays an ex-Nazi bent on retrieving a sunken fortune in rare coins. The hero, then, is the typical luxury-loving womanizer whose penchant for impromptu karate sessions with his Oriental manservants is also straight out of some Inspector Clouseau vehicle!; his abode, then, is not unlike the Bruce Wayne manor minus the Batcave, faithfully overseen by a long-suffering butler/chef whose recipes continually go unappreciated!
The director had made the impressive horror thriller DARK INTRUDER (1965), a failed TV pilot subsequently released to theaters; this one feels like it had the same intent and, likewise, was not picked up for a series! The film is not terrible per se, but neither is it especially engaging or memorable – though Lee's commitment to his roles in even such substandard fare is indeed admirable (incidentally, as in AN EYE FOR AN EYE {1981}, he gets to express befuddlement at his opponents' sheer resilience but, given that he had previously left them tied up at the mercy of a time-bomb, this reaction is perhaps understandable here!). As expected, the protagonist has any number of females crossing his path, be they colleagues, clients or criminals; also on hand is ill-fated child actress Heather O'Rourke, soon to briefly attain fame in the same year's POLTERGEIST.