The
frame job on a Green Beret serving as a chauffeur to a recently-promoted mob boss
for the murder of their common mistress, his trial and death sentence.
CIA
experiments on condemned prisoners go a step beyond the stupefying effect of
HV-8 to “genetically altered” HV-8b, a deadly virus that induces
wildly hysterical symptoms and flesh rot and cannibalism, an Army experiment
with unforeseen consequences.
Dennis
Cole, Anthony Franciosa, the director, with Ron O’Neal as a war buddy, Michael
Pataki as the mobster’s brother cozily
ensconced in prison, Tane McClure as a ringer for the
victim brought in qua creator of
HV-8, and a large cast as inmates, guards, agents, etc.