The Formula

IMDb link: 0080754
IMDb rating: 5.6 (3,082 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime
Director: Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, John Gielgud, John G. Avildsen
Cast: Marthe Keller and others

Release date: 19 Dec 1980
Release year: 1980
Runtime: 117 minutes
Country: West Germany, United States
Keywords: american cop abroad, synthetic fuel, big oil, based on novel, reference to salvador allende, reference to chile, berlin germany, american in germany, west germany, berlin wall

Plot:

A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Germans in World War II to make fuel from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil, and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula, and anyone who knows about it.

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