
Extreme Close-Up(1973)
Now the 28 million people who read about it, are definitely going to see it. Don't you want to know why?
While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.
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While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.
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1973-05-16
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Now the 28 million people who read about it, are definitely going to see it. Don't you want to know why?
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