Agent for H.A.R.M.

Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 science fiction spy thriller spyfi directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Peter Mark Richman. It is one of a number of spy thrillers of the time which have conspicuous scifi elements. In this case it is the inclusion of deadly spores which turn human flesh into fungus on contact.

Adam Chance Peter Mark Richman, works for an American agency, H.A.R.M. Human Aetiological Relations Machine. He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic Carl Esmond, a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with skin slowly eat the body away.Following Dr Steffanics arrival in the US he is taken into protective custody by H.A.R.M. and is placed in a beach house along with his niece and Agent Chance to develop a spore antidote. Here he reveals the communists real plan, which is to dust all of the American crops with these deadly spores. During their time at this house Chance falls for Steffanics niece Ava Vestok Barbara Bouchet, who is later revealed to be a communist spy. After the flat is attacked, Dr Steffanic is kidnapped by European spies and taken to a warehouse. Chance eventually rides in and a gun fight ensues in which Steffanic is exposed to the deadly spores in a valiant sacrifice, and dies. Afterwards, Chance reappears at the beach house and arrests Ava for good. ........

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