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SunBad
Since: Sep, 2010
2011-08-20 03:01:17
Googling "cigarette case licorice movie" brings me to Yahoo Answers
, where the asker decided they were looking for a 1987 TV movie called "Double Agent"
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FuzzyBoots
Since: Jan, 2001

I remember watching this movie, probably about two decades ago (scary to think it was that long...). It opened with some kind of a spy getting caught. I believe he had a trademark where he popped open a cigarette case and pulled out candy, I want to say red licorice. Something happens to him and this ordinary guy gets mistaken for him. Then... most of the movie blanks out for me except that there's a hired killer after the guy who has spikes which popped out of a glove on his fist and the resolution at the end involves the guy throwing a ball of mud onto the killer's spikes and telling his dog to "fetch". It would have come out somewhere around the same time as Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan because I remember mistaking a trailer for that movie for a scene from this movie.