History Film / AgentForHARM

* GutturalGrowler: Adam does this when attacking the henchman in the car. He was probably speaking weird because he was straining with the coat hanger, but it was still weird.
-->'''Adam:''' '''''Drive.'''''[[note]]'''Servo:''' How do you like my grizzly bear impression?[[/note]]

Shortly after Stefánik’s arrival in the United States, his assistant is killed at his makeshift lab outside San Diego, so the eponymous H.A.R.M. sends one of its agents, Adam Chance (Mark Richman), to help protect the scientist. Unfortunately, there's various and sundry baddies led by the evil Malko, who would love nothing more than to turn Stefánik into guacamole.

The plot concerns the development and distribution of a biological warfare compound referred to as "spore." Said spore turns humans into "living fungus" rather quickly and is apparently painless. Comrade Basil Malko (Martin Kosleck) is developing the spore to destroy the population of the United States by dusting the crops. The only man that can stop him is Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a biologist who has recently defected from behind the UsefulNotes/IronCurtain.

Shortly after Steffanic's arrival in the United States, his assistant is killed at his makeshift lab outside San Diego, so the eponymous H.A.R.M. sends one of its agents, Adam Chance (Mark Richman), to help protect the scientist. Unfortunately, there's various and sundry baddies led by the evil Malko, who would love nothing more than to turn Steffanic into guacamole.

* UnexplainedRecovery: As mentioned in DangerTakesABackSeat, at one point Adam strangles a henchman with a coat hanger from the back of his van, then jumps out just before the van goes off a cliff and catches fire. Somehow, this henchman ''survives'' that, only to be killed by Adam's electrified door trap later. (You'd be forgiven for not realizing it's the same guy, though, as the actor is so bland-looking and the comment from Adam confirming it is blink-and-you'll-miss-it quick. It also doesn't help that there actually are two nearly-identical blond, Aryan-esque henchmen; both are breifly onscreen together just prior to the aforementioned DangerTakesABackSeat moment.)

%% * LookBehindYou: Spaz Chop!

* TheUnreveal: The film reveals quite early that Ava is TheMole.

* HotScientist: Ava, maybe. In one scene she offers to help Steffanic with his experiments and claims to know a little about biochemistry, but she never shows any further propensity for such and confesses to Adam that she is "not the intellectual type."

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: During the "Judo Range" scene, Adam almost makes mention of karate, pronouncing it as "ka-ra-TAY" instead of the more common "ka-RA-tee".

''Agent for H.A.R.M.'' is a 1965 American spy thriller directed by Gerd Oswald.

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[[caption-width-right:310:You know your lead is lame when the ''two'' women he scores with get more poster space than he does.]]

Shortly after Steffanic's arrival in the United States, his assistant is killed at his makeshift lab outside San Diego, so the eponymous H.A.R.M. sends one of its agents, Adam Chance (Mark Richman), to help protect the scientist. Unfortunately, there's various and sundry baddies led by the evil Malko, who would love nothing more than to turn Stefanik into guacamole.

* HotScientist: Ava, maybe. In one scene she offers to help Stefanik with his experiments and claims to know a little about biochemistry, but she never shows any further propensity for such and confesses to Adam that she is "not the intellectual type."

* TheMole: Ava, who is pretending to be Stefanik's niece. She's really a Soviet spy working for Malko.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Done quite subtly in the opening scene. Dr. Stefanik's friend, who was supposed to smuggle him out of Russia, betrays him instead and shoots his assistant in the face with a spore gun. Stefanik wrestles with the man and beats him, taking the gun in the process, but declines to ''shoot'' the man, instead deliberately smearing his opponent's hand over the infected spot on his dead assistant's face, so that he'll dissolve slowly from his hand up. One Hell of a way to go, even for a traitor.