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AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN, LIVING IN LONDON, ASKED BY BRITISH INTELLIGENCE TO DO A CRUCIAL JOB FOR THEM ON A BUSINESS TRIP TO EAST GERMANY WITH HIS YOUNG SON. HE IS LINED UP TO BE THE ASSASSIN OF A DEFECTOR WHO BEARS VITAL MILITARY SECRETS AND IS HEADED FOR RUSSIA THROUGH EAST GERMANY. BASED ON THE NOVEL BY FRANCIS GLIFFORD.


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 Lakers trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.

Summary written by Sean Brennan {sean@bearpaw.dnet.co.uk}


Frank Sinatra stars in this espionage thriller filmed at the height of the Cold War. Sam Laker (Sinatra) is an American industrial designer working in London. When Laker travels to East Germany on business, he brings along his ten-year-old son, and he ends up running into Martin Slattery (Peter Vaughn), an old Army buddy now working with British intelligence. Slattery tries to persuade Laker to put his wartime skills as a sniper to good use against a rogue agent now working with the communists. Laker refuses, but he reluctantly agrees to deliver a message to Karen Gisevius (Nadia Gray), who worked with the anti-Nazi resistance during the war. Laker returns from his errand to discover that his son has been kidnapped; Col. Hartmann (Derren Nesbitt), a communist operative, informs Laker that his boy will be held until he is willing to perform an assassination on their behalf. The Naked Runner was produced by Brad Dexter; Frank Sinatra, a man of fierce loyalties, often worked with Dexter