name this film???

[aurelia]

Can anyone help me - I saw this film as a young kid on an old video tape so I don't know how old it was even then but I think it was a Disney film or like it anyway.  This guy got these special powers by some sort of accident - it wasn't the hulk or anyhting like that - he could jump huge heights and things - I don't really remember much of the story but somehting happens and he is framed for murder and is sitting in the electric chair and he uses his powers and instead of the elctricity going into him he channels it into the observers in the other room.  He then breaks out and dives thousands of feet under water to rescue "Ernest Borgnine" - who is the sherrif and has been trapped in a chamber under the water.  I have searched the imdb list for Ernest Borgnine films as that has always been the thing I remebered all these years - weird eh - I'm sure my dad had called it Supersnooper but whether he put that down cause he missed the start I don't know - it has been haunting me for years as I'd love to see it again - as I only ever had a Beta copy of it and that has been defunkt for years

[LeMarchand]

I think you're after "Super Fuzz" http://www.camchaney.com/SuperFuzz.html . It seems to be available on R1 DVD.

[aurelia]

Thankx LeMarchand - this is the film - but I know it wasn't called Superfuzz - as fuzz is an american term - the film industry used to think we were all nuts over here and changed loads of names of films - weird as we all speak english - it's different with my french cousins it sometimes takes ages to work out what they've translated films too.

[KebabMeister]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082924/

 

I remember seeing it as a child.  Isn't one scene where he ends up going through the ground and ending up in China? 

I actually saw it in a German shop and I thought 'I remember seeing that film!!!' :)