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USA • 1985 • 73m •   • Directed by: Virgil W. Vogel. • Starring: Ray Wise, Wendy Kilbourne, Vic Polizos, James Avery, Cassandra Gava, Craig Stevens, Carolyn Seymour, Shawn Michaels, Mario Roccuzzo, Catherine Battistone, Barbara Beckley, Diana Bellamy, Gene Bicknell. • Music by: Ken Heller.
  In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow steals the national security code and threatens to blow up Hollywood unless her old enemy, Proctor, a Condor operative, is turned over to her.
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Not long ago, I saw a US television special about pilot episodes which didn't make it to the series stage. I was pleasantly surprised to see the ABC TV movie "Condor" mentioned. I first saw it on air in England about 17 years ago, where it has since enjoyed a DVD release. Ray Wise is a detective in futuristic Los Angeles, with Wendy Kilbourne as his beautiful sidekick, who is in fact an android. They are part of a crime-fighting organization called Condor, and on this case, they find themselves up against a female criminal mastermind (Carolyn Seymour, a recurring guest star on Star Trek: TNG). She has stolen top secret codes allowing her access to military technology, including a fleet of remote-operated drone helicopters with missile launchers. She threatens to level much of Los Angeles unless Wise's character, an old arch-nemesis, surrenders to her. Wise and Kilbourne set out to bring her to justice and save the city. With its drone helicopters, an android character who appears human, and futuristic technology which replaced bullets with laser guns, "Condor" was very high-tech for a TV movie dating back to 1986. I would love to see this one again.
Review by BritCanuck from the Internet Movie Database.
