Missile X is a 1978 international action-thriller directed by Leslie H. Martinson. The film is presented as a multinational co-production involving the United States, West Germany, Spain, Italy, and Iran. Set against the tense atmosphere of the Cold War, the story combines espionage, international terrorism, political intrigue, and a race against time. At the center of the film is a stolen experimental Soviet nuclear cruise missile and the dangerous plan of an international terrorist leader known only as “The Baron.”
The story begins with the theft of a highly classified experimental missile from a Soviet military installation somewhere inside the USSR. The weapon is not an ordinary missile. It represents a major advance in nuclear weapons technology, and its existence has been kept secret by the Soviet military. The theft therefore represents not only the loss of an extremely destructive weapon but also a potentially catastrophic security failure for the Soviet Union.
