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Make Like a Thief

4.0/10
TMDB7 votes
Original: 88 min

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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About Make Like a Thief

He was a man on the lam!

Make Like a Thief (1964) is a film in the crime, thriller genres. Directed by , . The cast includes Richard Long, Åke Lindman, Pirkko Mannola, Aulikki Tarnanen.

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Runtime
88 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America, Finland
Production companies
V.P Productions, Veikko Laihanen
Writers
Palmer Thompson

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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.

Who stars in Make Like a Thief?

Richard Long, Åke Lindman, Pirkko Mannola, Aulikki Tarnanen, Uolevi Vahteristo, Juhani Kumpulainen. See the cast cards above for character names.

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