Dimension 5 * (1966, Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Harold Sakata, Donald Woods) – Classic Movie Review 13,656

Jeffrey Hunter and France Nuyen star as time-travelling secret agents in the 1966 sci-fi espionage film Dimension 5. 

Director Franklin Adreon’s 1966 film Dimension 5 stars Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Harold Sakata, and Donald Woods.

Jeffrey Hunter’s career hit a low with this naff sci-fi espionage adventure thriller, in which he stars as US intelligence agent Justin Power, with France Nuyen as his lovely Chinese-American female agent helper Ki Ti Tsu. They are spies for Espionage Inc, who belt up and time-warp a couple of weeks ahead to stop Dragon, a Chinese group led by Big Buddha (Harold Sakata, Oddjob in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger), from nuking Los Angeles.

The daft yarn by Arthur C Pierce, poor production, and feeble trick work leave Jeffrey Hunter totally stranded in a farcical film that is so silly that it could be a parody.

Hunter had recently made the original Star Trek pilot The Cage, filmed in late 1964, playing commander of the command Captain Christopher Pike, but he declined to return in order to focus on his film career, and of course didn’t do the series. He died on May 27, 1969, aged only 42.

The film was released on DVD in widescreen by Kino Video on 26 September 2017.

It is part of a series of nine low-budget films produced by United Pictures Corporation, which became part of Commonwealth United Entertainment, which released the films in cinemas.

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