Product Details

• Actors: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray, Toby Robins
• Directors: Sidney J. Furie
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 21, 1995
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303406963
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,242 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker?s trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Edgy, minimalist, Frankenheimer-esque, May 29, 2000

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[e-mail] (L.A., CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Runner [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An exceptionally tense, minimalist film that truly exudes the whole Cold War era angst and mystery of what lies behind the Iron Curtain. Though Frankenheimer did not direct this classic, it is reminiscent of The Manchurian Candidate, but much more chilling in its unsettling view of Big Brother Communism.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sinatra at his best (4.5 stars would be my grade), April 6, 2000

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"me15" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naked Runner [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Naked Runner is not as well-known as it should be. Frank Sinatra plays an ex-commando who is recruited to rub out a foreign leader. The people recruit him by abducting his son and giving him the ultimatum "Kill our enemy, or else." Sinatra is manipulated cleverly and battles against his own sense of right and wrong and the desire to get his son back alive. The film is entertaining from start to finish.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not To Be Overlooked, February 15, 2004

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Henry Erlenwein (Staten Island, New York - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Naked Runner [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I can't understand why this film has been overlooked for so long. You've got Sidney J. Furie directing Sinatra and a solid supporting cast with a good storyline. Playing somewhat out of character as a fallguy trying to discover what's going on, Sinatra does an extremely credible job of portraying Sam Laker. Peter Vaughan, playing the "instigator" Slattery, is so good that I wanted to do away with him myself. It was great to see Nadia Gray again in a small but effective role. The only complaint is that it seems as though the entire film was dubbed in afterwards. There's a great and very satisfying finale that gives you reason to project what might happen next. This film deserves to be seen and I highly recommend it.