The Domino Principle

Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he’s busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Roy travels from San Francisco to Spain trying to find out why he was released from prison and who he has to kill. His only lead is the organization is run by a collection of unknown people, collectively known as “They.”, A secret agency plots to help a Vietnam vet escape from the prison to the services own private assassin., Murky thriller about a Vietnam veteran embroiled in an assassination plot. Tucker is serving time for murder when a mysterious figure offers him his freedom in return for an undisclosed favour. He accepts, only to find that he has been recruited to kill a public figure. Ignorant of his target and the motive behind the killing, Tucker is soon caught up in a chain of events which produces a political domino effect., Gene Hackman is the pawn of a sinister organization with assassination plans. Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Edward Albert, Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach. Directed by Stanley Kramer.