The Naked Runner

The Naked Runner is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan and Edward Fox. It was the last film Sinatra made with Warner Bros. and is largely viewed as being a fairly disastrous end to his association with the studio.

Sinatra was in need of a hit Marriage on the Rocks and Assault on a Queen having flopped in the two previous years so he put actor and trusted aide Brad Dexter in charge of finding a suitable vehicle. After negotiations for him to star in Harper fell through, The Naked Runner was plan B. Sinatra had been impressed with 1965s The IPCRESS File and recruited its director Sidney J. Furie. Among the films costars were Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt and Edward Fox. Sinatras fee was an at the time massivemillion plus boxoffice participation.Reports were of a troubled shoot with Sinatra playing the spoiled superstar. Two weeks into filming, he temporarily closed down the shoot and flew to Las Vegas to marry Mia Farrow. He returned with the intention of combining their honeymoon with his filming and took regular weekend trips to the south of France. This approach supposedly annoyed Dexter, who had been looking to arrest what he saw as increasing laziness in Sinatras onscreen performances. ........

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