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The Naked Runner (1967)

The Naked Runner (1967)

Drama Thriller

They found the key to Sam Laker. They wound it up good and tight. And then they turned him loose.

Release Date: 1967, July 19
Directors: Sidney J. Furie
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Sinatra Enterprises, Artanis Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, James Payne, Derren Nesbitt, Edward Fox, Toby Robins, Nadia Gray, Cyril Luckham, Inger Stratton, Michael Newport, J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

cold war spy on the run invention holiday assassination intelligence cold war era