Running Delilah (1994)
Top agent Delilah (Kim Cattrall) dies in a risky mission against weapon dealer Alec Kasharian (Yorgo Voyagis). But she's revived with high-tech medicine and cybernetic body parts. She returns as an invincible superwoman and continues her fight against Kasharian, who's newest deal includes plutonium from Russia.
A secret agent is killed ... an invincible cybernetic agent is born.
A television pilot for ABC that was not picked up.
Filmed in 1992, but not broadcast until 1994. There had been video releases in some regions during late 1993 and early 1994.
The password to enter a Paris spy outpost in "swordfish," a gimmick used in numerous spy movies. It originates in The Marx Brothers vehicle Horse Feathers (1932), where it gains entry into a speakeasy during American Prohibition.
The character Carlos is based on Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan murderer-for-hire who was still at large when the movie was released. He was captured in August 1994, and remains in French prison as of 2021.
Diana Rigg's character might be seen as an older version of her Emma Peel from The Avengers (1961).
