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| Directed by | Geoffrey Reeve Don Sharp (boat sequence) |
| Written by | Alistair MacLean Paul Wheeler (additional material) Don Sharp (additional material) |
| Based on | the novel Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean |
| Produced by | Kurt Unger |
| Starring | Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox |
| Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
| Edited by | Bill Lenny |
| Music by | Piero Piccioni |
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| Distributed by | Scotia-Barber |
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Running time | 98 minutes (theatrical release) |
| Countries | England, Netherlands |
| Language | English |
Puppet on a Chain is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins and Alexander Knox. It is based on the 1969 novel Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean.
The story was Maclean's 14th and the seventh film adaption of a Maclean novel. The film's signature boat chase (8 minutes of screen time) along the canals of Amsterdam reportedly inspired the boat chase in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die two years later and in the 1988 thriller Amsterdamned, which would also feature a long canal boat chase.[1][2] The boat chase was directed by an uncredited Don Sharp, who also did various reshoots for the film.[3]
- ^ "Puppet On a Chain (1970) VS Live and Let Die (1973)". Hometheaterforum.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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