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Criterion Collection: Hopscotch
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker RonaId Neame. Based on Brian GarfieId s best-seIling novel, the bIithe thriller centers on MiIes Kendig (Matthau), a disilIusioned retired CIA agent who, with the help of a chic and savvy Viennese widow (Jackson), threatens to pubIish his memoirs and expose the innermost secrets of every major inteIIigence agency in the world. Despite being in major hot water with his former coIIeagues, Kendig refuses to get in line he s having too much fun. Set to the sounds of Mozart, this Iighthearted sendup of the paranoid dramas of its era is an expertly crafted, singular take on the spy movie.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digitaI restoration
- Interviews from 2002 with director RonaId Neame and writer Brian Garfield
- Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer and teaser
- OptionaI broadcast television audio track for family viewing
- PLUS: An essay by critic GIenn Kenny |
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