Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

A hero who doesn't exist must save America from an enemy we never knew we had.

Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.

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Cast

Fred WardRemo Williams
Joel GreyChiun
Wilford BrimleyHarold Smith
J.A. PrestonConn MacCleary
George CoeGen. Scott Watson
Kate MulgrewMaj. Rayner Fleming
Charles CioffiGeorge Grove
Patrick KilpatrickStone
Michael PatakiJim Wilson
Davenia McFaddenN.Y. Traffic Control Cop

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Guy HamiltonDirector
Christopher WoodScreenplay
Richard SapirNovel
Warren MurphyNovel
Andrew LaszloDirector of Photography
Craig SafanOriginal Music Composer
Mark MelnickEditor
Larry SpiegelProducer

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