Dimension 5 (film)

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Dimension 5

Theatrical poster.

Directed by Franklin Adreon

Produced by Fred Jordan

Earle Lyon

Written by Arthur C. Pierce

Starring Jeffrey Hunter

France Nuyen
Donald Woods
Harold Sakata

Music by Paul Dunlap

Cinematography Alan Stensvold

 Edited by Robert S. Eisen
John Shouse

Production Harold Goldman Associates

company United Pictures Corporation.

Distributed by Feature Film Corp. of America

Release date
October 1966

Running time 90 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Dimension 5 (also known as Dimension Five or Dimension Four[1]) is a 1966 science

fiction/espionage or spy-fi film written by Arthur C. Pierce and directed by Franklin
Adreon.[2] Jeffrey Hunter and France Nuyen[2] star as time-traveling secret agents. It was part of a
series of nine low-budget films produced by United Pictures Corporation.
The films were intended for TV distribution, but received a theatrical release. The time-travel
premise had previously been used in the studio's film Cyborg 2087.[3]

Contents
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1Plot
2Cast
3Release
4Review
5Star Trek
6See also
7References
o 7.1Sources
8External links

Plot[edit]
Justin Power (Hunter), agent for Espionage, Inc., returns from a mission in which he used a time-
travel belt to steal secret plans. He is told by his superior, Cane (Donald Woods), he is to be
teamed with a Chinese agent to combat an Asian crime ring, Dragon, headed by crime lord Big
Buddha (Sakata). A sister agency has discovered Dragon plans to destroy Los Angeles if United
States forces are not withdrawn from east Asia.
Aware that Dragon has a primitive hydrogen bomb, but no way to deliver it, Espionage, Inc plans
to interrogate a captured agent, Chang (Gerald Jann). Chang is being brought from Hong
Kong by two agentsSato (Robert Ito) and George (Robert Phillips)so they might learn Dragon
plans. Chang insists that Dragon will see to it that he will never talk. An assassination attempt
occurs immediately. Though George is killed, Chang survives when a female agent shoots the
assassin with a dart
Informed of the incident, Power goes to Ontario Airport where he uses his time-travel device to
"preview" the assassination. A man in a cowboy suit shoots Chang with a dart gun concealed in a
camera, while Sato and the female agent watch helplessly. The shooter then escapes in
a limousine with Big Buddha in the back seat. Powers then switches to the present, warns Sato
by radio of the threat, and orders the limousine be prevented from following their taxi. Then he
punches out the would-be killer, and the transfer is made successfully.
At headquarters, the Professor (Jon Lormer), and his assistant, Miss Sweet (Deanna Lund),
subject Chang to a truth machine that forces him to tell what he knows at the risk of brain
damage. During the process, Chang switches to Chinese and Sato has to translate. The
interrogation of Chang reveals that a hydrogen bomb is being delivered piece-by-piece and
assembled in Los Angeles, to be exploded on Christmas Day, three months away. Power meets
his new partner, Ki Ti Tsu (Kitty) (France Nuyen), the agent who aided during the Hong Kong
assassination attempt.
Power takes Kitty to a Cantonese restaurant run by an old friend, Kim Fong (Kam Tong). He asks
Fong about the black market (Power's cover is an importer) and he offers to help, until Big
Buddha is mentioned. Fong's hostess, Nancy Ho (Linda Ho)a Dragon agentrecognizes Kitty
as a Chinese agent and forces Fong to give Power a bomb disguised as an owl-shaped incense
burner. Kitty is suspicious because in China, an owl is symbolic of ill omen, and because she
recognizes the hostess as an enemy agent. Power disregards her suspicions, and both happen
to be out of the car when the bomb explodes.
Later, Power visits Ho and confronts her, demanding the location of the bomb. Ho is killed by
Kitty as the former tries to stab Power. Kitty then turns Power over to Dragon agent Stoneface.
This a ruse; she has her own reasons to meet up with Big Buddha, and after she signals
headquarters, Power is rescued. Power then demonstrates the time travel belt to Kitty, warning
her that she must limit her travels to areas that she knows will still be there in the future or past.
Power receives a message from Cane and learns the Ming companythe maker of the owl-
bomb and a front for Dragonhas a warehouse in Long Beach, and is expecting a shipment from
Hong Kong on the Osaka Maru in three weeks. Power and Kitty time travel ahead the three
weeks, unaware that they are being watched. When Stoneface wants to kill them with a
disintegrator, Big Buddha has him killed instead.
Inspecting the warehouse in the future, Power and Kitty discover Uranium-238 in with the
Christmas decorations, but are discovered by Big Buddha, who has been expecting them for the
last three weeks. Limited by the restriction that he can only travel to locations he can see, Power
bounces between barrels as Dragon agents hunt him. Kitty confronts Big Buddha, wanting
revenge for his war crimes as executioner during the Nanking Massacre, including the death of
her parents seven years earlier,(This is a plot hole, since the Nanking Massacre was in 1937
1938)[4] but she is captured. Power surrenders to Big Buddha to save her. Big Buddha plans to
ship Power to Hong Kong to extract secrets from him.
Unexpectedly, Big Buddha's mute servant girl tries to stab him. Power uses the distraction to turn
on Big Buddha's bodyguard, Genghis, and a furious fight develops. Power is overpowered by the
much larger Genghis. Finally Kitty manages to toss Power a gun, which he uses to shoot
Genghis down.
Big Buddha by now has forgot all about his servant girl, who has been waiting for her chance to
stab him again. This time she kills him.
Power and Kitty return to the present to use their knowledge to stop Dragon again without time
travel, and let Cane's people do all the work.

Cast[edit]
Jeffrey Hunter ... Justin Power
France Nuyen ... Kitty
Harold Sakata ... Big Buddha
 Donald Woods ... Cane
Kam Tong ... Kim Fong
Linda Ho ... Nancy Ho
Robert Ito ... Sato
David Chow ... Stoneface
Jon Lormer ... Professor
Bill Walker ... Slim
Virginia Ann Lee (as Virginia Lee) ... Mute Girl
Lee Kolima ... Genghis
Deanna Lund ... Miss Sweet
Robert Phillips ... George

Release[edit]
Posters billed Sakata as Harold "Oddjob" Sakata to cash in on his popularity for his role
in Goldfinger.[5]

Review[edit]
Most reviewers have given fair to poor reviews, centering on the film's low production values and
silly plot. Jeffrey Hunter's performance has been criticized for his looking bored. France Nuyen,
on the other hand, was praised for her performance as a femme fatale.[6][7]

Star Trek[edit]
Several cast members had appeared or would appear in various episodes of Star Trek. Jeffrey
Hunter, Jon Lormer and Robert Phillips appeared in the pilot episode, "The Cage". Lormer also
appeared in both "The Return of the Archons", and "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched
the Sky", and France Nuyen appeared in "Elaan of Troyius".[8] Robert Ito starred in "Coming of
Age", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[9]

See also[edit]
List of American films of 1966

References[edit]
1. Jump up^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060311/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas
2. ^ Jump up to:a b "Dimension 5". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time
Warner). Retrieved July 19,2016.
3. Jump up^ Green 2014, pp. 120121.
4. Jump up^ The Nanjing Incident
5. Jump up^ Half sheet poster.
6. Jump up^ "Dimension 5 (1966) Article #1501 by Dave Sindelar". http://www.scifilm.org. Dave
Sindelar. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2015. External link in |website= (help)
7. Jump up^ The Espionage Filmogrophy: The United States Releases 1898 Through 1999 by Paul
Mavis]
8. Jump up^ Sherman, Allan (1981). The Star Trek Compendium. Simon and Schuster. pp. 30, 146,
157. ISBN 0-671-79145-1.
9. Jump up^ Okuda, Michael Okuda, Denise, Mirek, Debbie (1994). The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A
Reference Guide to the Future. Pocket Books. p. 46. ISBN 0-671-86905-1.
Sources[edit]
 Green, Paul (2014). Jeffrey Hunter, the Film, Television, Radio, and Stage
Performances. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 120121. ISBN 978-
0786478682.

External links[edit]
Dimension 5 at the Internet Movie Data Base
Dimension 5 at TCM.com
Dimension 5 at Classic Sci-Fi Movies