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The Naked Runner
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The Naked Runner

1967-07-19 · 101 min · ★ 6.1

Drama · Thriller

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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Directors
Sidney J. Furie
Production companies
Sinatra Enterprises, Artanis Productions, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Countries
United Kingdom
Status
Released

Top Cast

Frank SinatraFrank SinatraSam Laker
Peter VaughanPeter VaughanMartin Slattery
Nadia GrayNadia GrayKaren Gisevius
Toby RobinsToby RobinsRuth
Derren NesbittDerren NesbittColonel Hartmann
Edward FoxEdward FoxRitchie Jackson
Inger StrattonInger StrattonAnna
Cyril LuckhamCyril LuckhamCabinet minister
J.A.B. Dubin-BehrmannJoseph
Michael NewportPatrick Laker
Roy Hanlon
Victor Beaumont
Stanley MeadowsStanley Meadows
George MurcellGeorge Murcell
James PayneMan at Printing Press (uncredited)

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