Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, also released as Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous, is a 1985 American action-adventure film directed by Guy Hamilton. The film featured Fred Ward, Joel Grey, J. A. Preston, Wilford Brimley, and Kate Mulgrew. The character is based on The Destroyer pulp paperback series, featuring the character Remo Williams. It fared poorly in theaters and received mixed reviews from critics, although it did earn Joel Grey a Golden Globe nomination. The film and a Remo Williams television pilot both credited Dick Clark as executive producer. The film was supposed to be the first of a series based on The Destroyer series of novels. A significant setpiece within the film takes place at the Statue of Liberty, which was surrounded by scaffolding for its centenary restoration during this period. Plot Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death is faked and he is given a new face and a new name. Rechristened "Remo Williams" (after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in Makin's hospital room), his face is surgically altered and he is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun. Though Remo's training is extremely rushed by Chiun's standards, Remo learns seemingly impossible skills such as dodging bullets and running on water and wet cement. Chiun teaches Remo the Korean martial art named "Sinanju". Remo's instruction is interrupted when he is sent by CURE to investigate a corrupt weapons procurement program within the US Army. Cast Fred Ward as Officer Samuel Edward "Sam" Makin / CURE Agent Remo Williams Joel Grey as Master of Sinanju Chiun Wilford Brimley as CURE Director Harold W. Smith J. A. Preston as CURE Agent Conn "Mac" MacCleary George Coe as General Scott Watson Charles Cioffi as George Grove Kate Mulgrew as Major Rayner Fleming Michael Pataki as Jim Wilson Reginald VelJohnson as Ambulance Driver Jon Polito as Zack Gene LeBell as "Red" Sebastian Ligarde as Private Johnson Tom McBride as Soap opera "Jim" Suzanne Snyder as Soap opera "Nurse" William Hickey as Coney Island Barker Patrick Kilpatrick as Stone Roger Cudney as Captain Young Production Development Orion Pictures, a studio run by the people who had