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Movie
Hopscotch
Synopsis
Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent) Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice of yet another retired agent, Russian Herbert Lom, who suggests that Matthau write a tell-all autobiography. Spitefully, Matthau sends out copies of his first chapter to the heads of the CIA agencies throughout the world--and from that point on, he and Jackson don't have a moment's peace. This delights Matthau: now that all of his former colleagues are chasing after him, he has a reason to get up in the morning. As written by Brian Garfield, Hopscotch was a conventionally serious espionage novel. As adapted for the big screen by Garfield and Bryan Forbes, Hopscotch is a lively exercise in cloak-and-dagger comedy, even when the pursuit of Matthau turns deadly towards the end.
Cast
- Walter Matthau
- Glenda Jackson
- Sam Waterston
- Herbert Lom
- Ned Beatty
- David Matthau
- George Baker
- Ivor Roberts
- Lucy Saroyan
- Severn Darden
- George Pravda
- Jacquelyn Hyde
- Mike Gwilym
- Allan Cuthbertson
- Terry Beaver
- Ray Charleson
- Anne Haney
- Roy Sampson
- Douglas Dirkson
- Shan Wilson
- Randal Patrick
- Joe Dorsey
- Candice Howard
- Susan McShayne
- Yolanda King
- Antony Carrick
- Osman Ragheb
- Roland Frohlich
- Jeremy Young
- Sally Nesbitt
- Susan Engel
- Joanna McCallum
- Michael Cronin
- Laura Whyte
- Larry Larson
- Sean Worthy
- Danny Covington
- Richard Moore
- Philip Voss
- Debra Hook
- Bryan Forbes
- Brian Garfield
- Carl Kress
- Jonathan Bernstein
- Derek Ball
- Otto Plaschkes
- Brian Roy
- Arthur Ibbetson
- William Creber