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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.

1967 1 hour 41 minutes
60/100

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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.

Released

19th July 1967

59 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 41 minutes

Finishes at 3:12am

Ratings and awards

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    5.9/10

  • TMDb Logo

    61%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    60%

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Directed by

Sidney J. Furie

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Written by

Stanley Mann

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