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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Frank SinatraSam Laker
Peter VaughanMartin Slattery
Nadia GrayKaren Gisevius
Toby RobinsRuth
Derren NesbittColonel Hartmann
Edward FoxRitchie Jackson
Inger StrattonAnna
Cyril LuckhamCabinet ministerExplore the crew
- Director
- Sidney J. Furie
- Screenplay
- Stanley Mann
- Editor
- Barrie Vince
- Original Music Composer
- Harry Sukman
- Director of Photography
- Otto Heller