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Hopscotch

Comedy · Adventure

Hopscotch

The most dangerous man in the world. He's about to expose the CIA, the FBI, the KGB ... and himself.

7.0(181) 9/26/1980 1h 44m
ComedyAdventure

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Miles Kendig

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Isobel

Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Jack Cutter

Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty

Myerson

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

Yaskov

David Matthau

David Matthau

Ross

George Baker

George Baker

Westlake

Ivor Roberts

Ivor Roberts

Ludlum

Directed by

Ronald Neame

Production

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John Chard

6/14/2020

A simply delightful little film. After growing tired of the job, CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out of the business once and for all. Fearing that his peace, and maybe his life, could be threatened by the organisation, he tells them that unless he is left alone he will spill the beans on all the secrets that he knows about. They call his bluff, thinking he is full of bitter hot air, so he promptly starts sending out to them one chapter at a time. Realising that Kendig is serious, the CIA sets about putting a stop to him, by whatever means necessary!!. But with Kendig having been one of their own once, he is one shrewd customer, and stopping him is going to be one hell of a job. Based on the Brian Garfield novel, Hopscotch is a cheeky comedy paced with utter perfection from dir

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