The Amateur

Year: 1981

Runtime: 112 mins

Language: English

Director: Charles Jarrott

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In a world dominated by professional assassins, an amateur has no place. A CIA researcher persuades his superiors to authorize a covert mission behind the Iron Curtain, seeking vengeance for his wife's murder by hostile agents. Once there, he uncovers a tangled web of deception that lies beneath the circumstances of her death.

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