Project Kill
1980, R, 90 min.
Directed by William Girdler, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Nancy Kwan, Gary Lockwood, Leslie Nielsen.

Leslie Nielsen plays things straight as a kung fu expert/double secret agent in this film that was made in 1976 but not released until 1980 after the director’s death. (For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.) Something Weird Wednesdays is sponsored by KVRX radio.

This article appears in December 28 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.