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Lassiter is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roger Young released in USA on 17 february 1984 with Tom Selleck
Lassiter (1984)
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Add to a movie listLassiter, also known as The Magnificent Thief, is a 1984 adventure film. Part caper and part espionage, it was set in 1930s London, and starred Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour. The movie was made to cash in on Selleck's popularity as the character Thomas Magnum in the show Magnum, P.I., but it failed to ignite the box-office on its release. The Magnum, P.I. connection is perhaps most clearly seen by the movie poster tagline The Magnum Man Hits the Big Screen with a Vengeance.
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Nick Lassiter (Tom Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion and, after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German Embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route to South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.Actors
Tom Selleck
(Nick Lassiter)
Jane Seymour
(Sara Wells)
Lauren Hutton
(Kari Von Fursten)
Bob Hoskins
(Inspector John Becker)
Joe Regalbuto
(Peter Breeze)
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