The Killer Elite
They protect us from the enemy, but who protects us from them?
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Produced by United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions
A gritty 1970s spy thriller about betrayal and revenge, driven by action and paranoia within a morally murky world of freelance operatives and institutional corruption.
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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