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The Naked Runner
The Naked Runner

The Naked Runner

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

Genres

DramaThriller

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

101 mins

Rating

6/10

Release Date

19 July 1967

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Sam Laker

Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan

Martin Slattery

Nadia Gray

Nadia Gray

Karen Gisevius

Toby Robins

Toby Robins

Ruth

Derren Nesbitt

Derren Nesbitt

Colonel Hartmann

Edward Fox

Edward Fox

Ritchie Jackson

Inger Stratton

Inger Stratton

Anna

Cyril Luckham

Cyril Luckham

Cabinet minister

J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann

J.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann

Joseph

Michael Newport

Michael Newport

Patrick Laker

Roy Hanlon

Roy Hanlon

Victor Beaumont

Victor Beaumont

Stanley Meadows

Stanley Meadows

George Murcell

George Murcell

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