YMMV / Panic in the City

• Complete Monster: "August Best"—real name unknown—is a rogue Soviet operative based in Los Angeles who intends to detonate an atomic bomb, killing thousands of innocent people. To ensure the silence of a scientist regarding the bomb that Best was trying to have him construct, Best has an assassin kill the scientist in the hospital, having the assassin himself killed when he asks too many questions. Subsequently, Best contacts another scientist to get him to complete the atomic bomb in a suburban basement hideout, smuggling the latter out of his house, and trying to have the butler killed to remove witnesses. Once a subordinate delivers the final component for the bomb, he sends her and another subordinate to Chicago, intending to repeat the process. When confronted by his superior, who calls him insane and threatens to arrest him, Best shoots the man before returning to the hideout, pursued by Agent Dave Pomeroy. At the hideout, Best triggers the bomb against the scientist's wishes before shooting the scientist.
• Retroactive Recognition: Before Dennis Hopper was riding a motorcycle with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider, he played an assassin working for a Soviet Operative. If not for a poster where he is prominently displayed despite having a bit part, most people likely wouldn't know he was in this film.