The Naked Runner (1967)
Director: Sidney J Furie
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
One of the complex spy games which proliferated in the mid-'60s: more Cold War crises of conscience in East Germany, with Sinatra as the wartime crack shot unwillingly reactivated for an assassination plot. A tortuously hollow narrative is further obfuscated by Furie's customarily flashy direction, which fragments the looking glass to the point of impenetrability. (From a novel by Francis Cifford.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Sidney J Furie
Producer: Brad Dexter
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray, Tony Robins, Cyril Luckham, Edward Fox full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 102 mins
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