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Make Like a Thief
“He was a man on the lam!”
4.0 / 10• 1964• 1h 28m•NR• Finnish
CrimeThriller
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Richard Long
V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan
Lead
Åke Lindman
Arvo Mäki
Pirkko Mannola
Marja Salo
AT
Aulikki Tarnanen
Helvi Östman
UV
Uolevi Vahteristo
Einar, Helvi Östman's henchman
Juhani Kumpulainen
Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker
Esko Salminen
Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman
Rose-Marie Precht
Toini Saari
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Palmer Thompson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Make Like a Thief is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
