The read
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes45%
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
119 audience votes
Key crew
- Mark RobsonDirector
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Ernest LehmanScreenplay
Cast
- Paul NewmanAndrew Craig
- Edward G. RobinsonMax Stratman/Walter Stratman
- Elke SommerInger Lisa Andersson
- Diane BakerEmily Stratman
- Micheline PresleDenise Marceau
- Gérard OuryClaude Marceau
- Sergio FantoniCarlo Farelli
- Kevin McCarthyJohn Garrett
- Leo G. CarrollBertil Jacobsson
- Sacha PitoëffDranyi
- Jacqueline BeerMonique Souvir
- John WengrafHans Eckhart
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Themes
based on novel or booknobel prizestockholm, swedenauthordoppelgänger