Puppet on a Chain (1970)

Directed by

Geoffrey Reeve

Genre

thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American secret agent investigates drug smuggling rings in Amsterdam. He uncovers a network of criminals and becomes entangled in chases and violent confrontations through the canals and streets of the city.

fast-pacedatmosphericgrittysuspensefulbleakkinetictensevisceral

What happens

Puppet on a Chain is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins and Alexander Knox. It is based on the 1969 novel Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean. The story was Maclean's 14th and the seventh film adaption of a Maclean novel. The film's signature boat chase (8 minutes of screen time) along the canals of Amsterdam reportedly inspired the boat chase in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die two years later and in the 1988 thriller Amsterdamned, which would also feature a long canal boat chase. The boat chase was directed by Don Sharp, who also did various reshoots for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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