The Chairman

The Chairman

Infobox Film
name = The Chairman


image_size =
caption = Theatrical release poster
director = J. Lee Thompson
producer = Mort Abrahams
writer = Jay Richard Kennedy
Ben Maddow
narrator =
starring = Gregory Peck
Anne Heywood
Arthur Hill
Alan Dobie
Conrad Yama
music = Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography = John Wilcox
editing = Richard Best
distributor = 20th Century Fox
released = July, 1969
runtime = 98 min
country = UK
USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
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website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0064148

"The Chairman" is a 1969 film, a spy thriller starring Gregory Peck. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay was by Ben Maddow, based on a novel by Jay Richard Kennedy.

Plot

Gregory Peck plays an American sent to communist China in order to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What Peck does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head; the forces behind his mission will detonate it if he fails to do what he went over for.

External links

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