The Amateur (1981)
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
Top billed cast
John SavageCharles Heller
Christopher PlummerProfessor Lakos
Marthe KellerElisabeth
Arthur HillBrewer
Nicholas CampbellSchraeger
George CoeRutledge
John MarleyMolton
Jan RubešKaplan
Ed LauterAnderson
Miguel FernandesBotaro
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