A Man Called Dagger
- IMDb link: 0061946
- IMDb rating: 4.5 (150 votes)
- Genres: Action, Thriller
- Director: Richard Rush
- Cast: Terry Moore, Paul Mantee, Sue Ane Langdon, Jan Murray and others
- Release date: 1 Jan 1968
- Release year: 1968
- Runtime: 86 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: hairy chested man, man in black speedos, handsome man, beefcake, well dressed man, espionage, euro spy, damsel in distress, song in title, deceit
Plot:
Plucky and fearless Harper Davis (Terry Moore) risks her life when she joins Dick Dagger (Paul Mantee) in thwarting the scheme of Rudolph Koffman (Jan Murray), a notorious ex-Nazi concentration camp commandant, who has defected to the United States and plots to take over the world. Ingrid (Sue Ann Langdon) is Koffman;s mistress, who runs a "beauty farm" and turns her well-stacked wiles on Dagger, when he investigates the farm in order to obtain a lead in tracking down dastardly Rudolph Koffman. He forces Erica (Eileen O'Neill), one of the farms beautiful resident henchwomen to make a murder attempt on dauntless Dick and, when that fails, the Nazi villain, manipulates glamorous Girl-in-Auto with no name (Mimi Dillard) to liquidate Dagger by way of a murderous and spine-tingling auto chase. Dagger also finds himself trapped in an underground maze of dire-straits corridors experimental laboratories, and tortured in a brainwashing chamber filled with beautiful-but-dangerous henchwomen. And comes close to meeting his death when a yacht, he and plucky Harper are having a romantic rendezvous, is blown up. Koffman survives to confront Koffman in a terrifying climax in a meat-packing plant.