The Killer Elite (1975)

United States of America

Crime, Action, Thriller

United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Baum/Dantine Productions, Exeter Associates, Arthur Lewis Productions

James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, Burt Young

Sam Peckinpah

Stirling Silliphant, Marc Norman

Taglines: They protect us from the enemy, but who protects us from them?

central intelligence agency (cia), hitman, traitor, revenge, betrayal

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

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