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To Catch a King (1984)

To Catch a King poster
Directed by
Clive Donner
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former nightclub singer gets involved in a plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor from his home in Portugal. She teams up with a British intelligence agent to stop a Nazi operation during World War II.

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What happens

To Catch a King is a 1984 American thriller film directed by Clive Donner and written by Roger O. Hirson. Based on the 1979 novel by Jack Higgins (writing as Harry Patterson), the film stars Robert Wagner, Teri Garr, Horst Janson, John Standing, Barbara Parkins and Marcel Bozzuffi. It premiered on HBO on February 12, 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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