Secret Weapons
It is six years into a future American civil war. A man has created a drug that enhances fighting skills. But will he give it to the theocratic government, or the rebels? A Cronenberg-directed television curio from the early seventies.
David Cronenberg
Director
Norman Snider
Writer
Casts & Crew
Barbara O'Kelly
Motor-Cyclist Leader
Vernon Chapman
The Bureaucrat
Norman Snider
Research Scientist
Lister Sinclair
Narrator (voice)
Also Directed by David Cronenberg
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