The Naked Runner
They found the key to Sam Laker. They wound it up good and tight. And then they turned him loose.
6.1
8 votes
July 19, 1967
1h 41m
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.
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Cast
Frank Sinatra
Sam Laker
Peter Vaughan
Martin Slattery
Nadia Gray
Karen Gisevius
Toby Robins
Ruth
Derren Nesbitt
Colonel Hartmann
Edward Fox
Ritchie Jackson
Inger Stratton
Anna
Cyril Luckham
Cabinet ministerJ.A.B. Dubin-Behrmann
JosephMichael Newport
Patrick LakerRoy Hanlon
Victor Beaumont
Stanley Meadows
George Murcell
James Payne
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