The Master Touch is a 1972

1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

 Italian / West German crime film directed by Michele Lupo

Michele Lupo

Michele Lupo , was an Italian film director. He directed 23 films between 1962 and 1982.He was born in Corleone, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Sette contro tutti...

 starring Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...

 and Florinda Bolkan

Florinda Bolkan

Florinda Bolkan is a Brazilian actress, born Florinda Bulcão.-Biography:Daughter of a congressman and a granddaughter of a priest on her mother's side, Florinda lived in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará state, and in Rio de Janeiro until she became a world citizen...

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The film is also known as A Man to Respect in the Philippines and the USA.

Plot summary

Douglas plays a safe cracker who has just been released from prison

Prison

A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...

. His faithful and beautiful wife has waited for his release. He attempts what he plans to be one last burglary of a safe in the top floor of a Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 building. He calculates that even if unsuccessful, a prison sentence would be manageable. However, he miscalculates when a building guard is killed by accident, something that will result in a life sentence. He is led away by police as his wife looks on.

Cast

• Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
  
   as Steve Wallace
• Giuliano Gemma
  Giuliano Gemma
  -Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
  
   as Marco
• Florinda Bolkan
  Florinda Bolkan
  Florinda Bolkan is a Brazilian actress, born Florinda Bulcão.-Biography:Daughter of a congressman and a granddaughter of a priest on her mother's side, Florinda lived in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará state, and in Rio de Janeiro until she became a world citizen...
  
   as Anna
• Wolfgang Preiss
  Wolfgang Preiss
  Wolfgang Preiss was a German theatre, film and television actor.The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932...
  
   as Miller
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988.He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Bürgermeister Anna * Hanussen...
  
   as Detective Hoffman
• Romano Puppo as Miller's Lieutenant
• Bruno Corazzari as Eric
• John Bartha
  John Bartha
  János Bartha is a Hungarian film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as Sheriff who captured Tuco in the 1966 Sergio Leone film, the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a film that also starred Clint...
  
   as Murdered Security Guard
• Allen Stanley
• Vittorio Fanfoni
• Luigi Antonio Guerra

External links

• The Master Touch on IMDB