1979 - Captain America - KayLing88 Entertainment Review

Publication Information

Title : Captain America
Version : 1979
Label : Episod
Written by : Don Ingalls
Directed by : Rod Holcomb
Theme music composer :
- Pete Carpenter
- Mike Post
Country of origin : United States
Original language : English
Executive producer : Allan Balter
Producer : Martin M. Goldstein
Cinematography : Ronald W. Browne
Editor : Michael S. Murphy
Running time : 97 minutes
Production company : Universal Television
Distributor :
- NBCUniversal Television Distribution
- Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Original network : CBS
Original release : January 19, 1979

Captain America is an 1979 television film loosely based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, directed by Rod Holcomb and starring Reb Brown. The film was followed by the sequel Captain America II: Death Too Soon, also released in the same year.

Plot

Steve Rogers is a contemporary man whose father was a 1940s government agent. The very patriotic attitude of Steve's father earned him the nickname "Captain America." His father was later murdered. Rogers, a former Marine now making a living as an artist and traveling the countryside in a conversion van, is inspired by his father's story to sketch a super-hero. After receiving potentially fatal injuries in an attempt on his life intended to seem like an accident, he is administered an experimental chemical called the FLAG formula; FLAG is an acronym for "Full Latent Ability Gain," a kind of "super-steroid." The formula not only saves his life but enhances his strength and reflexes.

Cast