The Amateur

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The Amateur is a 1981 espionage thriller film about a CIA cryptographer who seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack.

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instanceOf espionage film
film
authorOfSourceWork Robert Littell NERFINISHED
basedOn The Amateur (novel) NERFINISHED
cinematographer Albert J. Dunk NERFINISHED
composer Laurence Rosenthal NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
director Charles Jarrott NERFINISHED
distributor Avco Embassy Pictures NERFINISHED
editor Ralph Brunjes NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Toronto NERFINISHED
Vienna NERFINISHED
followsCharacterOccupation CIA cryptographer
genre espionage
thriller
hasCIAAsOrganizationDepicted true
hasFianceeCharacterKilledBy terrorist attack
hasMaleProtagonist true
hasTheme espionage
revenge
terrorism
mainCharacter Charles Heller NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus personal vendetta against terrorists
originalLanguage English
partOf Cold War spy films
plotSummary A CIA cryptographer seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack.
producer Martin Ransohoff NERFINISHED
productionCompany Marvin Worth Productions NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1981
releaseFormat theatrical film
runtime 112 minutes
screenwriter Laurence Rosenthal NERFINISHED
Robert Littell NERFINISHED
setting Canada NERFINISHED
Vienna NERFINISHED
starring Arthur Hill NERFINISHED
Christopher Plummer NERFINISHED
Ed Lauter NERFINISHED
George Coe NERFINISHED
John Savage NERFINISHED
Marthe Keller NERFINISHED
Nicholas Campbell NERFINISHED
titleLanguage English

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John Colicos appearedIn The Amateur