The Naked Runner

Jul 19, 1967

1h 41m

★ 6.0

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Sinatra Enterprises

Artanis Productions

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts

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Cast

Sam Laker

Frank Sinatra

Martin Slattery

Peter Vaughan

Karen Gisevius

Nadia Gray

Ruth

Toby Robins

Colonel Hartmann

Derren Nesbitt

Ritchie Jackson

Edward Fox

Anna

Inger Stratton

Cabinet minister

Cyril Luckham

Joseph

J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann

Patrick Laker

Michael Newport

Roy Hanlon

Victor Beaumont

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