Telefon (Film), released 1977 — adapted from Telefon by Walter Wager.
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Starring Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel.
Directed by Don Siegel.
