Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)

I love this movie so much

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Blistering performances.

Paying homage to spy movies such as (the much better) James Bond movies, this late 60s spy snoozer is a real chore to watch. Oh boy, Roger Moore's most slapsticky 007 stinkburger towers over Agent for HARM. Give me Richard Kiel any day over some bad guy name Malko. MALKO???? Sounds like a recalled candy bar brand.Peter Mark Richman plays our main spy Adam Chance. He's been in a lot of films and shows and this one is not one of his better ones. Adam mostly runs around, drives, rides a bike, fires shots (mostly misses), transmits communication and calls the Vienna Archery Association. Excited yet?? To be frank, I think Peter was more than glad to be in any scene along with Ava who's played by the bikini wrapped Barbara Bouchet. RAWRRRR, she's the only reason HARM gets a few extra points as her film presence is quite pleasing to the corneas. Watch where he cops a feel or two on Ava as well.And there's a surprise twist ending too: they didn't make a sequel.

Here we have the epic adventures of a super-swinging spy from the '60s, complete with loads of gorgeous women, fantastic gadgets, and awe-inspiring adventure set pieces...Actually, no we don't.What we have instead is a painfully low-budget, underwritten, generally icky movie filled with token attempts at the girls, gadgets, and adventures of our pal double-oh-seven, but all falling faaaar short of that goal. Think of it as the movie you and your friends might make one Saturday afternoon if you tried to make a Bond movie with community theater actors and a camcorder. Only without the comedy.Buh-duh DAH-duuuuuh!

Everyone seemed to want to get in on the James Bond act in the sixties. Some, like 'The Man from UNCLE" were successful. Others, like this film, were not. This is another flick that should only be seen on MST3K. The acting is truly woeful, the music a whole lot worse. And what's with the cardigan our hero wears? And WAS the contacting of the Vienna Archery Tournament the only actual work he did? A pattern is certainly emerging in the MST3K films and that pattern is: no-one spared one solitary thought for the script! Laughs are always popping up in this film, whether it is the strangely camp mortician, the henchman who looks like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince or Adam's 'grizzly bear' impression whilst choking a goon. View only on MST, if only to save your sanity.

What can you say about Agent For H.A.R.M.? Well, for starters it has a catchy theme song that pummels you in the opening credits. You have a spy that kind of hangs around the house for the duration of his mission, hitting on a girl who's about a third his age and protecting a scientist from several bad guys. One of them is The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Anyway, Adam Chance puts on a cardigan, gets his tiny gun and proceeds to take care of these cretins. Along the way we are treated to bad lines, spores and Truman Capote moonlighting as a madman. At the end, Prince is dead and ninety minutes have been wasted watching Adam Chance move about the house in his sensible cardigan.