Make Like a Thief

Make Like a Thief

88 mins | Crime, Comedy | Nov. 20, 1964

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.

Make Like a Thief

88 mins | Crime, Comedy | Nov. 20, 1964

Make Like a Thief
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers V.P Productions
Original title Juokse kuin varas
Directors Palmer Thompson, Åke Lindman, Richard Long
Writers Palmer Thompson

Cast

Richard Long

as V. Bartley 'Bart' Lanigan

Åke Lindman

as Arvo Mäki

Pirkko Mannola

as Marja Salo

Aulikki Tarnanen

as Helvi Östman

Uolevi Vahteristo

as Einar, Helvi Östman's henchman

Juhani Kumpulainen

as Leonard Weston / Lawrence Walker

Esko Salminen

as Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman

Rose-Marie Precht

as Toini Saari

Seppo Wallin

as Jarli Hotti, Helvi Östman's henchman

Ismo Kallio

as Bank manager's butler