Make Like a Thief (1964)
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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.
What is Make Like a Thief about?
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. Make Like a Thief is a Crime, Thriller movie, released on 1964-11-20, runtime 88 minutes.
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Directed by
Åke Lindman, Palmer Thompson
Cast
- Richard Long as V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan
- Åke Lindman as Arvo Mäki
- Pirkko Mannola as Marja Salo
- Aulikki Tarnanen as Helvi Östman
- Uolevi Vahteristo as Einar, Helvi Östman's henchman
- Juhani Kumpulainen as Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker
- Esko Salminen as Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman
- Rose-Marie Precht as Toini Saari
- Seppo Wallin as Jarli Hotti, Helvi Östman's henchman
- Ismo Kallio as Bank manager's butler
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