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Scorpio

Burt Lancaster (Actor), Alain Delon (Actor), Michael Winner (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Mystery & Thrillers
Format	Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Letterboxed
Contributor	Michael Winner, Mel Stewart, James Sikking, Paul Scofield, Gayle Hunnicutt, Alain Delon, Vladek Sheybal, Joanne Linville, Jack Colvin, J.D. Cannon, Gerald Wilson, John Colicos, Burt Lancaster, Mary Maude, David W. Rintels See more
Language	English, French
Runtime	1 hour and 54 minutes

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Burt Lancaster (Field of Dreams), Alain Delon (Once a Thief) and Paul Scofield (King Lear) star in this masterful spy thriller filmed on location in Washington, Paris and Vienna.With its intense action, breathtaking suspense and fabulous supporting cast that includes John Colicos (The Postman Always Rings Twice) and Gayle Hunnicutt (Running Scared), Scorpio is a bold and powerful modern classic. Lancaster is Agent Cross, a C.I.A. operative with a shocking secret; Delon is Scorpio, a French assassin with a hard-earned reputation for always getting his man. Both are experts in their fieldbrave, intelligent, and lethal. And when they're thrust together by personal ambitions and political forces beyond their control, each man finds himself fighting for his life amidst the brutal realities of the Cold War.

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The prime minister of Eritrea is assassinated by political opponents, setting off a chain of events with global repercussions in the intelligence community. Burt Lancaster plays Cross, a CIA operative who dates back to the agency's earliest days as the OSS. Scorpio (Alain Delon) is a protégé of Cross, and one of Cross's best friends in a netherworld where everyone's allegiances, personal and political, are in question. Higher-ups within the intelligence agency decide that Cross knows too much and is better off eliminated; at first, Scorpio refuses the job until the CIA frames him on a phony narcotics bust and coerces him into the assignment. The two men play a game of global cat-and-mouse as Cross consorts with his Russian counterparts--fellow aging dinosaurs in a young man's game. Cross's links with the Russians go back to the days of the Spanish Civil War and the time when Cross was given the ironic label of "premature anti-Fascist" by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. The incredibly convoluted plot is rife with double-crosses and reverse double-crosses, in an environment in which nothing is quite as it seems and no one is to be trusted. Director Michael Winner infuses enough energy and excitement into the film's many action segments to make Scorpio worthy of comparison to John Frankenheimer's best political thrillers. Winner also throws in several curveballs, such as the zither music during a meeting in a Vienna café (shades of The Third Man) and the preposterous device of disguising Lancaster as an African American priest. Though not quite a classic, Scorpio is still an underrated espionage thriller that was well attuned to the political cynicism of the time. Best line: "I want Cross, and I want him burned!" --Jerry Renshaw

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Winner
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Letterboxed
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2000
Actors ‏ : ‎ Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000035P5Y
Writers ‏ : ‎ David W. Rintels, Gerald Wilson
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Aaron Ward

Excellent Michael Winner spy film that best defines what a double agent actually is!

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022

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Good quality acting, direction, and location shooting. Many spy films elude to double agents being involved in or responsible for the plot of the action that takes place in the films, but not many films have their lead characters playing the actual double agents. This one does. Likewise, the agency heads of spy networks in most films end up living and continuing to operate, or are arrested. In Scorpio, the CIA operations figurehead, played by John Colicos, is assassinated by Cross (Burt Lancaster), who is the double-agent character that the CIA is after. I like how Winner has the audience believing all the way through the film that Cross is the good guy, only to find out at the very end of the movie that he is, in fact, a double agent. And the cherry on top of the sundae is that Lancaster has been using a Czech courier who just happens to be the girlfriend of Scorpio, the hitman (Alain Delon) trained by Cross now employed by the CIA to hunt down Cross and kill him. It's an amazing screenplay David W. Rintels and Gerald Wilson with excellent direction by Michael Winner. The movie has good star power and a great supporting cast. I love the J.D. Cannon voice-overs too. Jerry Fielding's score is good and is reminiscent of another film by Michael Winner and scored by Fielding, "The Mechanic," probably one of my most favorite movies of all time. This movie is definitely one to have in your collection.

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Chip Kaufmann

SCORPIO Is Still Engaging After 50 years.

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2023

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2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Michael Winner's Cold War spy thriller SCORPIO, and it's just as engaging today as when first released in 1973. Director Winner (1935-2013) earned more than his share of critical brickbats during his career thanks primarily to his having directed the controversial DEATH WISH (and two sequels) with Charles Bronson, but his movies have aged well, are entertaining now as excellent time capsules of the 1970s, and a fun watch thanks to his use of big name stars.

SCORPIO stars Burt Lancaster as Noah Cross, an aging CIA operative who wants out before discovering that the agency wants him dead ("I want Cross burned" says his boss). They hire French assassin Alain Delon, "Scorpio", to handle the job, even though Lancaster's character trained him. While on the run, Cross hides out in Vienna where his old Soviet adversary Zharkov (Paul Scofield) provides him with sanctuary. What follows is a cat and mouse game between hunter and the hunted. When Cross' wife is killed before he can get her out of America, he returns to the U.S. to get revenge.

One aspect contributing to Michael Winner's movies' entertainment factor is he always shot on location which in this case is Washington D.C., (he actually got to shoot inside CIA headquarters), Paris, and Vienna. Winner was also able to muster good performances from his actors and SCORPIO reunites Lancaster with his THE TRAIN co-star Paul Scofield (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS). Their scenes together in the Viennese safe house are a joy to behold. Delon is solid along with John Colicos and J.D. Cannon as the CIA head honchos, while Joanne Linville is touchingly effective as Burt's wife.

Lancaster was 60 years old when he made this movie and was still capable of performing his own stunts. A contemporary reviewer stated it made him feel young again to see Burt effectively leaving his pursuers in the dust. SCORPIO was released at the same time Watergate was making headlines, thus its cynical take on espionage is especially appropriate. The movie did OK at the box office but wasn't a big success. Over the years SCORPIO has grown in stature becoming one of those movies that can be seen more than once while keeping your interest thanks to a great script and noteworthy performances.

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L. A. Jones

Burt Lancaster is a real good actor

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023

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I really like this movie because there are several good actors and actresses in it

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Albert

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2021

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The plot is interesting, but it was difficult to decode while watching. I had to read about the movie before it truly made sense.

It's also older, and the filming quality is distracting. I like older movies, but this one is the first one where it was positively distracting.

It would be interesting to see a remake of it, just because the plot, once understood, isn't a bad plot. Bumped up from 2 to 3 stars for the ending. It more or less has all the qualities of a Shakespearean tragedy.

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Complex spy script with a French Connection sensibility

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020

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Up there with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold — but with phenomenal action scenes reminiscent of the French Connection. Michael Winners best work along with the Mechanic. The movie has an intricately constructed script of cynical late Cold War era spy games — at the center of which we find Lancaster’s character running. The film places the agent-on-the-run in an impossible-to-survive kind of man hunt. The brilliance of the movie is creating masterfully filmed sequences that plausibly present how this master spy is able to overcome his hunters. We go from a greyhound bus station to Vienna, Paris, and finally Langley Virginia. Simultaneously, the film does a great job by introducing characters and scenes that say something about innocence lost on both sides of the spy game. On the eastern side, communist ideals were destroyed by mock trials, camps that subjugated dissidents. On the western side, GIs who freed survivors from concentration camps had become CIA executives ordering cynical assassinations. The final leg of the movie is pretty mind-bending. Lancaster returning home to avenge killing of a loved one, and many other unexpected revelations, outcomes follow. The masterful execution of such a multitude of ideas and actions make me think had Winner gone on to make a respectable name for himself in Hollywood, People would be talking about Scorpio like they talk about Spy Who Came in from the Cold. For my money, this is the second best spy movie ever made.

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Weak! - Here's an alternative

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2021

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This is neither a good film nor even a mediocre film. An aging overweight Burt Lancaster cannot save this production full of clichés. Weak story, embarrassingly poor dialog, poorly directed.

Without giving much away this is simply a chase film. Lancaster is a spy who crossed someone, but were not sure what happened. The whole movie is the CIA trying to capture Burt. A much better film in this genre is HOPSCOTCH starring Walter Mathieu.

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Wolfpack

Très bon !

Reviewed in France on June 9, 2023

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Très bon film, avec un Burt Lancaster (le maître) en agent de la CIA pris en chasse... par un Alain Delon (l'élève) sans état d'âme.
Le film est très long - 2h17 - pour les standards de l'époque, mais on ne s'ennuie pas.
Alain Delon n'est pas doublé en langue anglaise - il le parle très bien.

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Angelo

Entertaining

Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2018

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Classic film. Bought for my Dad. They don't make them like this anymore.

Fernando

Sus actores

Reviewed in Spain on August 9, 2019

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Muy buena película

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Reviewed in Italy on May 31, 2014

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John Ferngrove

Cold War Old School

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2009

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I love this movie. The basic theme is the world of seventies cold war espionage, when the old warhorses who've been in the game since the second world war, or before, are being replaced by smart, new, cynical men. This new breed have no understanding of the more ambiguous loyalties of the old school, who have been alternately allies and enemies, and sometimes profound friends besides.

The film has some superb factors on its side. Firstly, the score is one of the best by someone called Jerry Fielding. Brash American big band themes, irresistible Parisian Cafe Accordian music, Bohemian zithers and incredibly exciting jazz piano that's like Schoenberg meets Oscar Peterson for some of the chase scenes.

If you like convoluted spy thrillers with twists and turns right to the end of the plot then this is one of the best. There are ambiguities deliberately left unresolved even at the end.

One of the stars of the film is the city of Vienna where much of the action happens. You see both the seamy side, portrayed so well in The Third Man, but also the impossibly romantic side of this fascinating city.

Burt Lancaster as Cross, the tough but aging agent, effortlessly outwitting all his younger contemporaries, except the one he has trained himself, his protoge, Scorpio, played by Alain Delon, I think quite movingly. Scorpio is a man who is ruthless, very cool, but has a soft spot for cats, and proves ultimately too naive to realise what lengths his masters will go to.

Paul Scofield as Cross's Soviet counterpart, a man full of ironies and contradictions and grim humour, is magnificent and also helps to lift this film out of the ordinary.

On top of it all there is some indefinable something the film has that sets it apart from all others of its type, something greater than the sum of its parts. An aching nostalgia mixed with romanticism that is doomed.

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