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The Naked Runner

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

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.

Top 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

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.

Rating

6.1 / 10
8 Reviews
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