The Naked Runner
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sidney J. Furie
Frank Sinatra
Peter Vaughan
Derren Nesbitt
Nadia Gray
Toby Robins
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sam Laker, an American widower who designs furniture in England, is planning to take his 14-year-old son, Patrick, on a business trip to the Leipzig Fair behind the Iron Curtain. Before his departure, he is contacted by a wartime colleague, Martin Slattery, who asks him to deliver a message in Leipzig. Slattery, now a chief in British Intelligence, wins Sam's consent when he tells him that delivery of the message could mean life or death to Karen Gisevius, a European agent who had helped Sam during the war. Actually, Slattery has devised an elaborate plan to force Sam into killing an international spy who has defected to the Communists. Shortly after arriving in East Germany, young Patrick is kidnaped, and Sam is informed by a Colonel Hartmann, presumably an East German, that in exchange for his son's safety he must assassinate a man in Copenhagen. Unable to think of anything but his son, Sam agrees; but his victim fails to show up. He then is told that Patrick has been killed by Hartmann because the assignment was never carried out. Now driven to an almost maniacal determination to avenge his son's murder, Sam gathers information about Hartmann's scheduled movements and sights his rifle on the roadway Hartmann is expected to travel. When the car passes, Sam fires two bullets into the back seat of the car and kills the occupant. As Sam makes his getaway, he is met by Slattery and Hartmann and informed that the man he killed was the defector-spy.
Director
Sidney J. Furie
Cast
Frank Sinatra
Peter Vaughan
Derren Nesbitt
Nadia Gray
Toby Robins
Inger Stratton
Cyril Luckham
Edward Fox
J. A. B. Dubin-behrmann
Michael Newport
Crew
Bill Alexander
Maurice Askew
Alan Bell
Alan Brett
Peter Davies
Brad Dexter
Michael Dryhurst
Godfrey Godar
Otto Heller
Stanley Mann
Pat Moon
Peter Proud
Don Record
Arthur Ridout
Barbara Ritchie
Sinatra Enterprises
Fred Slark
Morris Stoloff
Harry Sukman
Barry Vince
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in London and Copenhagen. Released in Great Britain in August 1967; running time: 102 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1967
TechniScope
Released in United States 1967
