''Rosebud'' is a 1975 American

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directed by

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, and starring Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, and

Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford ( Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor.Obituary '' Variety'', 26 December 1984. He was a member of the " Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and se ...

. The script was by Otto's son,

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, based on the novel by Joan Hemingway and . Originally the film was set to star

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, but he left after disagreements with Preminger.

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made her film debut as a teenager.

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, who had been cast as one of the girls, was replaced during production.

Plot

Larry Martin (O'Toole) is a ''

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'' reporter, secretly working for the

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as he travels around the globe tasked, along with

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, to work for the release of five wealthy girls

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ped by the anti-Israel terrorist

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from the

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''Rosebud''. Martin must contend with the girls' fathers, all of whom are wealthy, connected and concerned. Sloat (Attenborough), the extremist head of Black September, is connected with the kidnappings, and is subsequently hunted down after his plans for a centralized global terrorist network are uncovered.

Cast

* Peter O'Toole as Larry Martin * Richard Attenborough as Edward Sloat * Cliff Gorman as Yafet Hemlekh * Claude Dauphin as Charles-André Fargeau *

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as Sen. Donnovan *

as Lord Carter *

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as George Nikolaos *

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as Lady Carter *

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as Helene Nikolaos * Brigitte Ariel as Sabine Fargeau *

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as Margaret Carter *

as Joyce Donnovan *

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as Gertrud Freyer * Mark Burns as Shute *

Amidou Hamidou Benmessaoud ( ar, حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television, and stage actor. Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he m ...

as Kirkbane * Klaus Löwitsch as Schloss *

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as Melina Nikolaos * Maria Machado as Else *

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Jean Martin Jean Martin (6 March 1922 – 2 February 2009Jean Martin
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References

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* * {{Otto Preminger 1975 films 1970s action thriller films American action thriller films United Artists films Films about kidnapping Films about journalists Films about terrorism Films shot in Haute-Corse Films directed by Otto Preminger Israeli–Palestinian conflict films Films about the Central Intelligence Agency Films based on French novels Films set in Corsica Films set in Hamburg Films set in Paris Films set in London Films set in Berlin Films set in Lebanon 1970s English-language films 1970s American films

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