Declassified Tales

Dive into stories where trust is scarce, and danger is everywhere. Key features include:

The 39 StepsA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent goes rogue and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information. Mr. FreedomWilliam Klein moved into more blatantly political territory with this hilarious, vicious Vietnam-era lampoon of imperialist American foreign policy. Mr. Freedom (John Abbey), a bellowing good-ol’-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine (a satirically sexy Delphine Seyrig) to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown of kitschy excess. Delightfully crass, Mr. Freedom is a trenchant, rib-tickling takedown of gaudy modern Americana.

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