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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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