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Make Like a Thief(1964)
Status: Released
Date: 1964-11-20
30%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
He was a man on the lam!
Overview:
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Languages: English, Finnish.
Countries:
United States of America,
Finland
ProductionCompanies:
V.P Productions
Veikko Laihanen
Movie: Make Like a Thief
Top 10 Billed Cast
Richard Long
V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan
Åke Lindman
Arvo Mäki
Pirkko Mannola
Marja Salo
Juhani Kumpulainen
Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker
Esko Salminen
Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman
Rose-Marie Precht
Toini Saari
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Overview
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Release Date
1964-11-20
Average
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Rating:
1.5 startsTagline
He was a man on the lam!
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