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Puppet on a Chain

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

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.

Top Cast

  • Sven-Bertil Taube

    Sven-Bertil Taube

    Paul Sherman

  • Barbara Parkins

    Barbara Parkins

    Maggie

  • Alexander Knox

    Alexander Knox

    Colonel De Graaf

  • Patrick Allen

    Patrick Allen

    Inspector Van Gelder

  • Vladek Sheybal

    Vladek Sheybal

    Meegeren

  • Ania Marson

    Ania Marson

    Astrid Lemay

  • Penny Casdagli

    Penny Casdagli

    Trudi

  • Peter Hutchins

    Peter Hutchins

    The Assassin

  • Drewe Henley

    Drewe Henley

    Jimmy Duclos

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.

Rating

6.0 / 10
33 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Jun 3, 2023

    At the start of this, I did wonder what on earth was going on. Sven-Bertil Taube (a sort of Jon Voight lookalike) was an odd choice to lead. Hardly an household name, quite possibly not even in his native Sweden. Anyway, he arrives in Amsterdam where he doesn't even make it out of the airport before the bodies start dropping. Turns out that he is there to put a stop to a lucrative cocaine smuggling operation feeding the USA. He is not exactly flavour of the month with local police chief "De Graaf" (Alexander Knox), and so must do most of his investigating with the aid only of his friend "Astrid Lemay" (Ania Marson). A dastardly priest; garish gingham dolls, way too much dodgy flute music and a secret kingpin all lie in his path as he tries to thwart this successful industry. There is quite a fun motor boat chase giving a scale of just how the canals in the city interlink, but that ends rather unspectacularly - as, indeed, does the whole thing. It's made up of C-list "James Bond" types, and though there are a few quips in Alistair Maclean's self-adapted dialogue, this adventure is just a really weak and dated operation all round.

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