The Amateur (1981 film)

The Amateur

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Produced by Garth Drabinsky (producer) (as Garth H. Drabinsky)
Mario Kassar (executive producer)
Joel B. Michaels
Andrew G. Vajna (as Andrew Vajna)
Written by Robert Littell (screenplay and novel)
Diana Maddox
Starring
Music by Kenneth Wannberg
Cinematography John Coquillon
Edited by Stephan Fanfara
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
December 11, 1981 (Canada)
February 12, 1982 (United States)
Running time
112 minutes
Country Canada
Language English
Budget US$10 million[1]
Box office $6,892,098[2]

The Amateur is a 1981 Canadian crime/thriller film directed by Charles Jarrott with a screenplay by Robert Littell, which he then adapted into a novel of the same name. It stars John Savage and Christopher Plummer.

Plot

When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a CIA cryptographer blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Once there, however, he discovers a web of deception underneath his fiancée's death.

Cast

Recognition

1982 nominations:

References

  1. Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p259
  2. Box Office Mojo

External links


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