1979 - Captain America II : Death Too Soon - KayLing88 Entertainment Review

Publication Information

Title : Captain America II : Death Too Soon
Version : 1979
Label : Movie
Written by : Wilton Schiller
Directed by : Ivan Nagy
No. of episodes : 2
Theme music composer :
- Pete Carpenter
- Mike Post
Country of origin : United States
Original language : English
Executive producer : Allan Balter
Producer : Martin M. Goldstein
Cinematography : Vincent A. Martinelli
Editor : Michael S. Murphy
Running time : 83 minutes
Production company : Universal Television
Distributor :
- NBCUniversal Television Distribution
- Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Original network : CBS
Original release : November 23 – November 24, 1979

Captain America II: Death Too Soon is a 1979 television film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, directed by Ivan Nagy and starring Reb Brown. The film was preceded by Captain America earlier the same year. It was aired on CBS in two one-hour slots. The first part aired on November 23, 1979 and the second aired the next night, leading into the conclusion of Salem's Lot.

Plot

Steve Rogers (Reb Brown) is first shown sketching a portrait of a Mrs. Shaw, who complains to him about a gang of muggers who have been stealing the proceeds from cashed Social Security checks; she denies having cashed hers. He bids her do this in order to set a trap for the muggers, and springs the trap as Captain America. In the meantime, a free-lance revolutionary terrorist calling himself General Miguel (Christopher Lee), planning to fight an unspecified war, kidnaps a Professor Ian Ilson and forces him to resume his research in manipulative gerontology. Ilson has managed to formulate both a chemical that accelerates aging and the antidote to the same chemical, and Miguel, posing as the warden of a prison in Oregon near Portland, plans to use the chemicals in question to hold Portland hostage for a multimillion-dollar ransom.

Cast