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Title: PHOENIX AFFAIR, the

Reference number: 7591

Date: 1975

Director: ph. Neil Castell and Bob Gray

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Fiction

Running time: 11.10 mins

Description: An amateur espionage drama in which a secret agent is earmarked for 'elimination' by his boss - however the agent avoids the mid-air explosion which is intended to kill him, and gets his revenge by shooting his boss and escaping with a female agent.

See also ref 7590

Shotlist: [shotlisted from DVD - chapter timings used]

A Shoestring Production - gvs man sitting at desk reading memos, opens folder with memo 'This agent is becoming unreliable. Suggest elimination on termination of next assignment' - reads another memo and compares two - selects file with picture of female agent and picks up telephone (1.07) animated title sequence - action shot of agent with rifle in case running and climbing wall - subjective shots going through undergrowth - emerges from bushes in front of large house, compares it with photograph entitled 'UK Mafia HQ' - agent removes rifle from case, sits and eats a sandwich (2.19) Renault 16 draws up in front of house - man emerges, agent takes aim and shoots him and second man emerging from house with briefcase - agent runs over, takes briefcase, gets into car and drives away - car exits gateway at speed - shots of agent driving car along roads - animated sequence Take the Next Left for Courier Rendezvous (4.15) gvs agent parking car in town and getting out - returns to car from toilets to find female agent sitting in passenger seat - she hands him an envelope with a Paris brochure and a bundle of cash - gvs car driving out of car park (5.31) gvs man at desk in office, secretary delivers briefcase to him - he opens briefcase and hands a bomb to secretary - shot of agents driving down road at speed (6.14) animated sequence of car driving to airport - gvs car arriving at Edinburgh Airport - agents get out and approach check-in desk - dark tracking shot as they walk through through terminal building (7.50) shots of 'stewardess' spy in airport phoning man in office - shot of British Airways Trident reversing from stand - intercut shots of man in office and bomb - l/s of jet taking off - c/u bomb - man at desk opens folder (9.39) animated sequence of jet flying intercut with bomb and man in office stamping agent's file and adding label 'Deceased' - jet blows up - zoom in to Evening News billboard 'All Killed in Mid-air Explosion' (10.24) shots of man in office relaxing and making himself a drink - he approaches the window and is shot by the agent outside, who leaves smiling with the female agent - c/u man lying dead on floor - The End animated caption (11.10)