The Naked Runner
They found the key to Sam Laker. They wound it up good and tight. And then they turned him loose.
NR 1967 · 101 min · ★ 6.1 · Drama, Thriller
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
Directed by Sidney J. Furie · Written by Stanley Mann
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Frank Sinatra Sam Laker -
Peter Vaughan Martin Slattery -
Nadia Gray Karen Gisevius -
Toby Robins Ruth -
Derren Nesbitt Colonel Hartmann -
Edward Fox Ritchie Jackson -
Inger Stratton Anna -
Cyril Luckham Cabinet minister - J J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann Joseph
- M Michael Newport Patrick Laker
- R Roy Hanlon
- V Victor Beaumont
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