Man on a String

U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

Cast

Ernest Borgnine

as Boris Mitrov

Kerwin Mathews

as Bob Avery

Colleen Dewhurst

as Helen Benson

Alexander Scourby

as Colonel Vadja Kubelov

Glenn Corbett

as Frank Sanford

Hanna Landy

as Bess Harris

Vladimir Sokoloff

as Papa of Boris Mitrov

Friedrich Joloff

as Gen. Nikolai Chapayev

Holger Hagen

as Hans Grünwald

Reginald Pasch

as Otto Bergman

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