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  • Dec 31, 2008, 07:47 PM
    johndoe99
    Spy Movie like Thirty-Nine Steps
    Need a bit of help here:

    I was watching the Thirty-Nine Steps (1978) last night, and it triggered a memory from a movie I saw at least 16 years ago.

    The movie was based around the same era as the Thirty-Nine Steps, from what I can remember there was a man he may or may not have been a spy, for whatever reason he was on the run in Germany (think it was called Prussia then), a man living in Prussia takes him in and is later found out and killed, the spy is then chased by prussian agents and the spy falls into a river and escapes.

    Back in either England or Ireland the spy still knowing the agents are still on his trail, digs a sort of small underground home in an old fox hole where he lives for a few years going out every so often for food, the agents finally track him and there is a cat and mouse ending where the spy triumphs.

    Thanks.

    p.s. it has similarities to the thirty-nine steps, at some point I assumed Richard Harris played the spy, but I searched IMDB and got nothing.
  • Dec 31, 2008, 08:36 PM
    Couchcarrot
    Sounds like it could be "Rogue Male," 1976, starring Peter O'Toole.

    Here's a link to a brief plot summary.

    www.fandango.com/roguemale_v122998/summary
  • Jan 1, 2009, 11:54 PM
    Couchcarrot
    You're welcome. Good movie.:)

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