Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do ...
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Title: Puppet on a Chain (1971)
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Sven-Bertil Taube | ... | Paul Sherman | |
| Barbara Parkins | ... | Maggie | |
| Alexander Knox | ... | Colonel De Graaf | |
| Patrick Allen | ... | Inspector Van Gelder | |
| Vladek Sheybal | ... | Meegeren | |
| Ania Marson | ... | Astrid Lemay | |
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Penny Casdagli | ... | Trudi |
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Peter Hutchins | ... | The Assassin |
| Drewe Henley | ... | Jimmy Duclos | |
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Henny Orri | ... | Herta (as Henni Orri) |
| Stewart F. Lane | ... | George Lemay (as Stewart Lane) | |
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Mark Malicz | ... | Morgenstern |
| Michael Mellinger | ... | Hotel Manager | |
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Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent the American is soon stirring things up. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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cia central intelligence agency | professional hit | drugs | police | heroin |Taglines:
The blazing break-up of a narcotics ring that will have you hanging on the edge of your seat! See more »Parents Guide:
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Paul Sherman: I was thinking about my ex-wife, as a matter of fact.
Maggie: What was she like?
Paul Sherman: Very affectionate... with other men. My fault - I was never there.
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Some topless nudity and shots of a man's bloody face during a hotel fight was cut from the film for an 'AA' rating (suitable for persons of 14 and over) for the UK cinema release though this was restored in video releases and TV showings. See more »Goofs
At one point during the Amsterdam boat chase, the white boat hits a bridge and sustains fairly severe damage to the prow (which is acknowledged in the sound effects). In the next shot, the boat is unblemished again. See more »Quotes
Maggie: Paul, what are you thinking?Paul Sherman: I was thinking about my ex-wife, as a matter of fact.
Maggie: What was she like?
Paul Sherman: Very affectionate... with other men. My fault - I was never there.
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Some topless nudity and shots of a man's bloody face during a hotel fight was cut from the film for an 'AA' rating (suitable for persons of 14 and over) for the UK cinema release though this was restored in video releases and TV showings. See more »Connections
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Country:
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5 November 1971 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
Muñecas en cadenas See more »Filming Locations:
Kasteel Muiderslot - Herengracht 1, Muiden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands See more »Edit
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Truly atmospheric Euro-thriller from the early seventies, boasting one of the best chase sequences ever, and a plot riddled with holes.
US Agent Paul Sherman (Taube) arrives in Amsterdam to investigate drug trafficking between Holland and the US. Together with undercover agent Maggie (Parkins) he begins to close in on the villains...
Given that Sherman and Maggie are working together, they don't seem to share much information. If they had debriefed each other a little more thoroughly, much of what eventually transpires could so easily have been avoided (e.g., how come Maggie fails to tell Paul about the dodgy nuns and the bibles she witnesses in church?). This (and the unexplained accents - a Swede playing a Dutch-American, a Brit and a Canadian playing Dutch) aside, it's action-packed, makes great use of its Dutch locations, and has a nice twisty ending.
Extra-groovy nightclub scene too!