Scorpio details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Alain Delon, Burt Lancaster, Gayle Hunnicutt, Paul Scofield |
| Director: | Michael Winner |
| Genre: | Thriller - General |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Scorpio |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 50 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 02 Feb 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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This is one of the ...
By Eva#5 from GLASGOW , 29 Jun 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
This is one of the better 1970's spy flims. Who is betraying who is enough on it's own to keep you watching. But the performances are also cool and fascinating. The plot which moves between spying and revenge keeps things moving along. It is one of those cool puzzle films of the 70's where no one is ever what they seem. Lancaster and Delon are excellent and the rest of the cast provide solid support.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By SirSaucyRascal (35 reviews) , 11 Jan 2012see this !
this is one of the much better movies of it genre from the 70's
...made by a man not usually known for his thoughtfulness about topics such as spying and human betrayal.
.......It should be remade in today's world of espionage !!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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very good
By a customer from London , 21 Jan 2009Great cast, great plot, and somehow it doesn't come off so well even though there's nothing to condemn it with. But that's Michael Winner for you not letting you forget that making movies after all is a day job. It is almost excellent though.- Was this review helpful to you?
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It Was OK
By a customer from Scotland , 23 Mar 2008Burt Lancaster was ok. The whole thing was a little 'Hammy' sort of James Bond in the CIA. You would find faults in some of the plot and the thinking of the charactors.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By Michael Winner's standards, this is pretty good
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 02 Feb 2008A cool spy thriller from the early seventies, with an intriguing, holding screenplay and a very good performance from Burt Lancaster in the lead, as an ageing CIA man suspected by his bosses at Langley of selling secrets to the other side. So the firm's top hit man, Scorpio (Alain Delon), is despatched to assassinate him. There follows a kind of international chase, from Paris to Washington to Vienna and back to Washington again as the truth unravels.
Even though Michael Winner made some genuinely good films in the sixties (check out 'The jokers' or 'I'll never forget whatsisname', one still expects incompetence, gratuitous violence and lashings of soft-core sex from him, but 'Scorpio' finds him restraining himself and simply turning in a solid thriller. It's not the tightest thing you will ever see, and there are loose ends galore which no-one seems to care about, but otherwise, this is surprisingly palatable.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By Les Grandes pantalons from Claudy, Northern Ireland , 09 Oct 2007Delon and Lancaster seems like a top mix but what a stinker. I would like to tell you about it but I ended up picking my nose; the prodcut of which was more enthralling than this banal piece of rubbish.
My advice: pick your nose instead!- Was this review helpful to you?
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