Directed by:
John HustonCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
Maurice JarreCast:
Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Percy Herbert, Niall MacGinnis (more)VOD (1)
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Spy thriller in which British agent Joseph Reardon (Paul Newman) who is tasked by the mysterious espionage mastermind Mackintosh to impersonate an Australian agent and deliberately take the fall for a diamond robbery, landing him in prison so that he can form an alliance with a notorious criminal. Not all is as it seems, though, in this taught adaptation of Desmond Bagley's novel THE FREEDOM TRAP. (official distributor synopsis)
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