Call to Danger

Call to Danger (1973)

Peter Graves is famous for doing the impossible. But tonight's rescue of an informer from a crime syndicate's lair tops everything!

A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.

Date of release
1973-02-27
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
TV Movie, Adventure
Director
Tom Gries

Casting

Interesting facts

Call to Danger was broadcast as a New CBS Tuesday Night Movie television film on February 27, 1973. Initially ordered as a pilot, titled Deadly Target, the series was envisioned as a vehicle for Peter Graves should his current series, Mission: Impossible, not be renewed. Diana Muldaur was cast as the female lead. Parts of the movie were filmed on location in Washington, D.C.

Background

Call to Danger was originally a television pilot in 1961 starring Larry Blyden that was shown on General Electric Theater. In 1966 Peter Graves made another television pilot with the same title. The series wasn't picked up but Graves replaced Steven Hill on the Mission Impossible television series.

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