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| 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) |
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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 <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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5 November 1971 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
Alistair Maclean's Puppet on a Chain See more »Filming Locations:
Kasteel Muiderslot - Herengracht 1, Muiden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands See more »Company Credits
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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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On its initial UK release, the short subject William Webb Ellis, Are You Mad? (1971) was commonly shown as the supporting film. 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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Based on the famous novel by Alistair McLean, "Puppet on a String" brings secret agent Paul Sherman, played by Swedish actor and singer Sven-Bertil Taube, to the Dutch metropolis of Amsterdam. It's his turn to hunt a drug-smuggling gang and a corrupt policeman, and it takes some victims and actions until he faces the main villain on a dark harbor site in a last fatal fight.
The dark streets and canals of Amsterdam are a perfect setting for this seventies' thriller, and the action and suspense work pretty well. There is an incredibly breath-taking motor boat chase through the canals which looks takes the car chasing action of "Bullitt", "Vanishing Point" and "French Connection" a bit further and has been copied by Dick Maas in his Dutch 1987 psycho thriller "Amsterdamned". There are some really scary and psychedelic scenes in the movie, and Piero Piccionis great sound track adds much weight to the picture (and has been reissued two years ago on CD). A great forgotten action movie!