Lassiter
, Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
Directed by
Roger Young
Written by
David Taylor
Starring
Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins
Music by
Ken Thorne
Release date(s)
February 17, 1984
Running time
100 minutes
Country
USA
Language
English
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$17,513,452
Lassiter, also known as The Magnificent Thief, is a 1984 adventure film part-caper and part-espionage, set in 1930s London, starring Tom Selleck and Jane Seymour that was made to cash in on Selleck's popularity as the character Thomas Magnum in the show Magnum, P.I. but failed to ignite the box-office on its release. The Magnum, P.I. connection is perhaps most clearly seen by the movie poster tagline The Magnum Man Hits the Big Screen with a Vengeance.
Cast edit:
Tom Selleck as Nick Lassiter,
Jane Seymour as Sara Wells,
Lauren Hutton as Kari Von Fursten,
Bob Hoskins as Inspector John Becker,
Joe Regalbuto as Peter Breeze,
Ed Lauter as Smoke,
Lassiter is the only movie in which Jane Seymour is seen nude, from the rear and side.
Plot edit:
Nick Lassiter (Tom Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1934 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion and, after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German Embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route from South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.
