Man on a String
The sensational spy story that actually happened!
1960 | 92m | English
Popularity: 0.8 (history)
| Director: | André de Toth |
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| Writer: | John H. Kafka, Virginia Shaler |
| Staring: |
| U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 25, 1960 |
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| Director: | André de Toth |
| Writer: | John H. Kafka, Virginia Shaler |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | russian spy |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, RD-DR Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ernest Borgnine | Boris Mitrov |
| Kerwin Mathews | Bob Avery |
| Colleen Dewhurst | Helen Benson |
| Alexander Scourby | Colonel Vadja Kubelov |
| Glenn Corbett | Frank Sanford |
| Hanna Landy | Bess Harris |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | Papa of Boris Mitrov |
| Friedrich Joloff | Gen. Nikolai Chapayev |
| Holger Hagen | Hans Grünwald |
| Reginald Pasch | Otto Bergman |
| Eva Pflug | Tanja Rosnova |
| Richard Kendrick | Inspector Jenkins |
| Ed Prentiss | |
| Bob Iller | |
| Carl Jaffe | |
| Michael Mellinger | |
| Clete Roberts | Narrator (voice) |
| Seymour Cassel | |
| James T. Callahan | |
| Lisa Golm | |
| Ted Knight | |
| Eve McVeagh |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| John H. Kafka | Screenplay |
| Albert Benitz | Director of Photography |
| Pierre Pioncarde | Director of Photography |
| Virginia Shaler | Screenplay |
| Gayne Rescher | Director of Photography |
| Al Clark | Editor |
| André de Toth | Director |
| Charles Lawton Jr. | Director of Photography |
| George Duning | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Louis De Rochemont | Producer |
| Lothar Wolff | Co-Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
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