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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Mark Robson
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Actors:
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Leo G. Carroll,
Diane Baker,
Sergio Fantoni,
Gérard Oury,
John Wengraf,
Sacha Pitoëff,
Rudolph Anders,
Don Dubbins,
Micheline Presle,
Jacqueline Beer,
Paul Newman,
Elke Sommer,
Edward G. Robinson,
Kevin McCarthy,
Virginia Christine
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Duration:
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129 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)89.5
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Plot Summary:
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For some percipience, this year's Nobel stakes in literature has been awarded to the puerile author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. Max Stratman, the noted German-American physicist who comes to Stockholm with his uninitiated and superb niece Emily. The Odd Department also gives him an auxiliary during his stoppage, Miss Andersson. Craig soon notices that Dr. Stratman is acting strangely. The second time they meet, Dr. Stratman does not even approve him.
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Tags:
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Prize, The
Newman heads the cast of this flawed but enjoyable comedy thriller based on Irving Wallace's spy yarn. He is carousing author Andrew Craig, unlikely winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he goes to Stockholm to pick up his award and meets up with fellow scribe Dr Max Stratman (Robinson), the latter begins displaying strange behaviour which suggests he is not all he seems. It's a confusing but fun piece of work, buoyed up by some nice performances from Robinson, Newman and Sommer as his secretary, a nicely kitsch score, and some set pieces (check out Newman in the nudist camp) which border on parody.
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