The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973)

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973)

starring Lee Majors

directed by Russ Mayberry

73 minutes

Steve Austin is down on his luck after an unsuccessful mission. Tamara, one of the agents with whom he was working, was killed after he was pulled off the mission. Steve wants revenge but Oscar Goldman, his boss, refuses to authorize such a mission. Steve is tricked into going on a vacation to the Bahamas by Harry Donner, an old friend. Goldman is pulling the strings, behind the scenes.

Steve meets a couple of Russians in the Bahamas, Katrina Volana and Alexi Kaslov. Steve and Kaslov met years before when they were involved in their countries' respective space missions. Steve gets some assistance from Cynthia Holland

Steve sneaks around, gets kidnapped by the Russians, and subsequently escapes from the Russians. He locates international arms dealer Arlen Findletter's secret base and then improvises a mission to stop the arms dealer.

Thoughts

Arlen Findletter was played by Eric Braeden. He was also in The New Original Wonder Woman (1975) in which he played the German pilot who was shot down by Steve Trevor.

Steve Austin uses his bionic eye in this movie to see things that are far away and see in the dark. Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson) makes his first appearance in this movie. Rudy Wells is played by Alan Oppenheimer in this movie. Oppenheimer continued to play the character through the end of the second season of the show although he only appeared in two TV movies and seven episodes of the TV show. Martin Balsam is seen briefly playing the part of Rudy Wells in a flashback sequence from the first Six Million Dollar Man movie.

David McCallum played the part of Alexi Kaslov. I know him best for playing the part of Ilya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. although I've only seen a few episodes of that show decades ago. He was also in The Great Escape (1963).

This is not a great movie. The story does not flow very well. The supporting cast isn't terribly brilliant and aren't given very much to do. I would definitely rate it below the first movie.