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The Hundred Days of the Dragon: Directed by Byron Haskin. With Sidney Blackmer, Phillip Pine, Mark Roberts, Aki Aleong. A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Byron Haskin
- 1963-09-23
Sidney Blackmer, the Tony-award winning actor who played Teddy Roosevelt in seven movies, is best remembered by today's movie audiences for his turn as the warlock/coven-leader Roman Castevet in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968).
Blackmer also guest starred twice in the western TV series Bonanza in the episodes "The Dream Riders" (1961) and "The Late Ben Cartwright" (1968). Among his most notable roles was the character of presidential candidate William Lyons Selby in the Outer Limits episode " The Hundred Days of the Dragon ".
"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on September 23, 1963, during the first season.
During the presidential campaign in the USA, the candidate William Lyons Selby (Sidney Blackmer) wills the probable winner. The Asian dictator Li-Chin Sung (Richard Loo) develops a technique to shape the face and the fingerprints of any man and murders and replaces Selby by one skilled spy.
In a terrifyingly timely story of genetic engineering and political power plays, Sidney Blackmer stars as a popular American President who puts into place a master plan to slowly and steadily destroy the United States.
Episode guide. An Asian government develops a reliable means of changing a person's physical appearance, and uses it to replace a U.S. presidential candidate with a spy.
