Lassiter (1984)

96 min · Action, Adventure, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, heist film, spy film

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Directors

Roger Young

Cast

Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto, Warren Clarke, Ed Lauter, Edward Peel, William Morgan Sheppard, Barrie Houghton, Christopher Malcolm, Paul Antrim, Jane Wood, Tristram Jellinek, Brian Coburn, David Warbeck, Nicholas Bond-Owen, Peter Skellern, Harry Towb, Belinda Mayne

The story

Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route to South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.

Catalogue themes and tags

Burglar, Diamanten, Diamantenraub, Female Spy, Gelddieb, Jewelry thief, London, Master Thief, Nazis, Raub, Scotland Yard, Spying, Treasure, Verführung, World War 2, Crime Fiction, Romance Film, Drama, Adventure

Genres

Action, Adventure, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, heist film, spy film

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