The Chairman

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The Chairman
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Produced by	Mort Abrahams
Written by	Jay Richard Kennedy Ben Maddow
Starring	Gregory Peck Anne Heywood Arthur Hill Alan Dobie Conrad Yama
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	John Wilcox
Editing by	Richard Best
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	July, 1969
Running time	98 min
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
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The Chairman is a 1969 film, a spy thriller starring Gregory Peck. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay was by Ben Maddow, based on a novel by Jay Richard Kennedy. The tagline was: The countdown is ending...

[edit] Plot

Gregory Peck plays an American sent to communist China in order to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What Peck does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head; the forces behind his mission will detonate it if he fails to do what he went over for.