Although he is better known for his work on television, as James West in The Wild Wild West and Black Sheep Squadron, Robert Conrad had a decent movie career in the 70s starring in low budget action movies like the pair featured here. In Sudden Death, he plays a covert government agent named Duke Smith who battles corrupt corporate bigwigs trying to take control of the resources in a remote island in the Philippines. In Live a Little, Steal a Lot, known theatrically a Murph the Surf, he’s a Miami playboy who moonlights as an international jewel thief. The plots are formulaic, but the action is generally well-directed in both films and while he isn’t going to get any Oscars for his performances in these two flicks, Conrad is always entertaining to watch and he knows how to deliver a quip as well as he can deliver a kick. The tagline for Sudden Death that “Robert Conrad is better than Dirty Harry!,” however, is laughable.
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