The Nude Bomb (1980)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Clive Donner

Writers:

Mel Brooks (characters) &
Buck Henry (characters) ...

Release Date:

9 May 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Don Adams is Agent 86 In His First Motion Picture [USA Theatrical]

Plot:

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Plot Keywords:

Studio Tour | Car Chase | Secret Agent | Alpine | Sky Diving

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Sylvia Kristel	...	Agent 34
Rhonda Fleming	...	Edith Von Secondberg
Dana Elcar	...	Chief
Pamela Hensley	...	Agent 36
Andrea Howard	...	Agent 22
Norman Lloyd	...	Carruthers
Bill Dana	...	Jonathan Levinson Seigle
Gary Imhoff	...	Jerry Krovney
Sarah Rush	...	Pam Krovney
Vittorio Gassman	...	Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Walter Brooke	...	American Ambassador
Thomas Hill	...	President
Ceil Cabot	...	Landlady
Joey Forman	...	Agent 13

Also Known As:

Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb
The Return of Maxwell Smart (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

USA:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | France:U

Filming Locations:

Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Time Life Films

Trivia:

According to Barbara Feldon, she was not offered the chance to reprise her role of 99 but she would not have accepted even if she had been.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In the chase scene where Max is driving his desk, chasing he chief the chief's car goes up on two wheels to get past the parked Pinto. As the Chief's car passes the Pinto, the ramp that forces the car up on two wheels can be clearly seen.

Quotes:

Sauvage: Maxwell Smart is a fool and a bumbler.
Nino Salvatori Sebastiani: So how do you explain how this bumbler has been able to thwart KAOS constanly in the past?
Sauvage: He's a lucky bumbler.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Hellcats (#3.9)" (1990)

Soundtrack:

You're Always There

Underrated

Like the Austin Powers movies, "Get Smart" is a spoof of spy movies like the James Bond series, and "The Nude Bomb", made at the height of the Cold War, in the early 1980s, concerns Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, the guy with the shoe phone, pursuing the madman who has developed a bomb that, if exploded, would render everyone without clothes. This is an underrated movie and works well even with the absence of the original supporting cast from the 1960s television series. Almost, but not quite as funny as "The Naked Gun". 8/10