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  • Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt
  • Directors: Michael Winner
  • Writers: David W. Rintels, Gerald Wilson
  • Producers: Walter Mirisch
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Italian, Romanian, Norwegian, English, Danish, Greek, German, French, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Polish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00015N556
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,071 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Though not quite a classic, director Michael Winner's Scorpio is still an underrated espionage thriller that was well attuned to the political cynicism of its time. 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 phoney 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 ageing 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. 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. The director 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. The best line must be "I want Cross, and I want him burned!" --Jerry Renshaw



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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 Hunnicut (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 field – brave, 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cold War Old School, 14 Feb 2009
By John Ferngrove "Cirenor" (Hants UK) - See all my reviews
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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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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a laconic cat and mouse game , 28 Aug 2008
By Dr. U. L. Khawaja "usman khawaja" (hornchurch ,london) - See all my reviews
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flawed yet laconic cat and mouse game
i both liked and disliked but then took obvious delight in mike winner's cold war espionage thriller,

the script left innuendoes without any crystal clear answers to various riddles ,but it was definitilely nihilistic and a dark,atmospheric,piece which satisfies even today,

burtlancaster as-cross is rather typecast with his quizzical ,morose look ,delon as laurier is also average-the movie is stolen by zarkov-paul scofield ,he is worth watching in every scene and the aphorisms he utters are in total context and make this an above average movie,

the set pieces from vienna are inspired from the THIRD MAN BY O.WELLES and it is evident vienna has that surreal ,mystic,impressionist appeal for expressionist cinema ,it does vacillate between georgetown,moscow,paris and vienna and still remains coherent and entertaining in a trashy but familiar manner ,

it is devoid of any humour and that is a bleak flaw-yet it is terse and brutal and winner does indeed deliver a winsome thriller in the end .

the finale is both surprising yet predictable and still you do like the cat loving assassin delon and his mentor burt,who is accused of being a double agent without clear reason -lancaster has some really good action pieces and he delivers even at his age .

finally the movie works with it's handsome production design -my mouth was watering at the antique treasures in zarkovs apartment in vienna and some intriguing suspense with a twist which was rather tame but but still imaginative .

usman khawaja
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