Puppet on a Chain

Aug 2, 1970

1h 38m

★ 6.0

It will keep you hanging on the edge of your seat....

Overview

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

Big City

Puppet on a Chain Trailers

Cast

Paul Sherman

Sven-Bertil Taube

Maggie

Barbara Parkins

Colonel De Graaf

Alexander Knox

Inspector Van Gelder

Patrick Allen

Meegeren

Vladek Sheybal

Astrid Lemay

Ania Marson

Trudi

Penny Casdagli

The Assassin

Peter Hutchins

Jimmy Duclos

Drewe Henley

Herta

Henny Orri

George Lemay

Stewart F. Lane

Morgenstern

Mark Malicz

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