Make Like a Thief

Make Like a Thief

He was a man on the lam!

1964•1h 28m•2.6/10

CrimeThriller

Ratings

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2.6/10(5)

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.

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Production

V.P Productions, Veikko Laihanen

Language

FI

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Richard Long

Richard Long

V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan

Åke Lindman

Åke Lindman

Arvo Mäki

Pirkko Mannola

Pirkko Mannola

Marja Salo

Aulikki Tarnanen

Helvi Östman

Uolevi Vahteristo

Einar, Helvi Östman's henchman

Juhani Kumpulainen

Juhani Kumpulainen

Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker

Esko Salminen

Esko Salminen

Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman

Rose-Marie Precht

Rose-Marie Precht

Toini Saari

Seppo Wallin

Jarli Hotti, Helvi Östman's henchman

Ismo Kallio

Bank manager's butler

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