Agency (film)

Agency
Directed by	George Kaczender
Written by	Noel Hynd
Based on	The Agency by Paul Gottlieb
Starring	Robert Mitchum Lee Majors Saul Rubinek Valerie Perrine Alexandra Stewart
Cinematography	Miklós Lente
Distributed by	Jensen Farley Pictures
Release date	5 September 1980 (1980-09-05)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$4 million[1]

Agency (known as Mind Games on video) is a 1981 Canadian thriller drama film directed by George Kaczender.[2] The film was written by Noel Hynd.[3]

Based on a novel by Paul Gottlieb,[4] it is a thriller involving creative director Philip Morgan (Lee Majors) who discovers the advertising agency he works for, run by Ted Quinn (Robert Mitchum), is using subliminal advertising to manipulate a senatorial election. It features appearances by Canadian actors Saul Rubinek as a copywriter (earning a "Best Supporting Actor" Genie nomination),[3] Jonathan Welsh as a police detective, and familiar supporting players Michael Kirby and Gary Reineke as hitmen, and Hugh Webster as a prison inmate.

The film was shot on locations in Montreal and rural Quebec.

Home media

A low-resolution DVD transfer of the film was released in Australia by Flashback Entertainment (cat. 8206).

References

1. Lee, Grant (13 January 1979). "FILM CLIPS: Canadians Shooting for the Big Leagues". Los Angeles Times. p. b10.
2. Craddock, Jim, editor. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (Detroit, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2007), p. 49.
3. "Agency".
4. Craddock, p. 49.

Sources

• Craddock, Jim, editor. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, p. 49, "The Agency" [sic]. Detroit, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2007. ISBN 0-7876-8980-7.
• Agency at IMDb