Make Like a Thief

Make Like a Thief

He was a man on the lam!

1964 · 88 min · ★ 3.7 · Crime, Thriller

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.

Directed by Åke Lindman · Written by Palmer Thompson

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Cast

Richard Long V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan
Åke Lindman Arvo Mäki
Pirkko Mannola Marja Salo
Aulikki Tarnanen Helvi Östman
Uolevi Vahteristo Einar, Helvi Östman's henchman
Juhani Kumpulainen Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker
Esko Salminen Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman
Rose-Marie Precht Toini Saari
Seppo Wallin Jarli Hotti, Helvi Östman's henchman
Ismo Kallio Bank manager's butler

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