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Scorpio

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Cross (Burt Lancaster) is an experienced assassin for the CIA who decides he's quitting the business. When he announces his intentions, however, the CIA decides they'd rather have him dead than retired. They assign Scorpio (Alain Delon), a French assassin whom Cross has mentored for years, to do the job. A complicated game of cat and mouse follows, during which Cross relies on his many contacts and years of experience to elude the man he's taught everything he knows.
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Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon add some much-needed weight, but Scorpio doesn't offer much that spy thriller fans haven't already seen before.

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Jerry Oster New York Daily News 06/03/2021
2/4
A spy movie that tries to transcend the dutifully ordinary twists of its plot and tell a tale of a squalid world in which nothing not friendship nor love nor life has any value. It is so relentless in rendering meanness that it leaves a bitter aftertaste. Go to Full Review Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 06/03/2021
Follows a trite formula on such an unduly large, far-flung scale that it finally gets out of hand, leaving the viewer confused and therefore indifferent. Go to Full Review George McKinnon Boston Globe 06/03/2021
Just when you think the international spy intrigue films have reeled to the final fadeout, along comes a picture like "Scorpio" to prove there's life in the old genre yet. Go to Full Review David Parkinson Radio Times 06/03/2021
3/5
Lancaster manages to combine the fear of the fugitive with the toughness and resource we have come to expect of him. Go to Full Review John Huddy Miami Herald 06/03/2021
A slick, talky, occasionally theatrical, but frequently audacious and exciting yarn... Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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thiago s @Thiagostone Nov 10 Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Steve D @RT35616104 08/04/2023 A depressing predictable drag. See more paul d @PaulusLoZebra 11/24/2021 Michael Winner's Scorpio is an engaging spy thriller. It's got the same basic ingredients as many films in the genre: Cold War tension, brilliant covert solo operators who take on the world, untrustworthy bureaucrats in Washington and Moscow, double-crosses, ageing spys and their young replacements … should I continue ? This film succeeds because the three leads Lancaster, Delon and Scofield command our attention, each in their own way. And Lancaster's athletic stunts at age 59 are impressive. See more 09/01/2020 The bad guys are the CIA! See more 10/23/2015 A lot of stunning cinematography and wonderful writing, but I wasn't a fan of the ending. See more 07/04/2015 Unconventional confusion. See more Read all reviews
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Michael Winner

Director

Burt Lancaster

Cross

Alain Delon

Jean 'Scorpio' Laurier

Paul Scofield

Zharkov

John Colicos

McLeod

Gayle Hunnicutt

Susan

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Scorpio: Official Clip - I Want Cross Scorpio: Official Clip - I Want Cross 2:00 Scorpio: Official Clip - Getting the Drop on the Opposition Scorpio: Official Clip - Getting the Drop on the Opposition 1:34 Scorpio: Official Clip - I'm Still a Communist Scorpio: Official Clip - I'm Still a Communist 2:32 Scorpio: Official Clip - Hit and Run Scorpio: Official Clip - Hit and Run 1:03 Scorpio: Official Clip - Let Me Get My Bag Scorpio: Official Clip - Let Me Get My Bag 0:30 Scorpio: Official Clip - Can We Talk? Scorpio: Official Clip - Can We Talk? 2:15 Scorpio: Official Clip - The Object Is Not to Win Scorpio: Official Clip - The Object Is Not to Win 3:43 Scorpio: Official Clip - Crashing His Tail Scorpio: Official Clip - Crashing His Tail 2:12 Scorpio: Official Clip - Construction Shoot Out Scorpio: Official Clip - Construction Shoot Out 3:43 Scorpio: Official Clip - Cross Came Back Scorpio: Official Clip - Cross Came Back 1:21 View more videos

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Synopsis Cross (Burt Lancaster) is an experienced assassin for the CIA who decides he's quitting the business. When he announces his intentions, however, the CIA decides they'd rather have him dead than retired. They assign Scorpio (Alain Delon), a French assassin whom Cross has mentored for years, to do the job. A complicated game of cat and mouse follows, during which Cross relies on his many contacts and years of experience to elude the man he's taught everything he knows.
Director
Michael Winner
Producer
Walter Mirisch
Screenwriter
David W. Rintels, Gerald Wilson
Production Co
Mirisch Corporation, Scimitar Productions
Rating
PG
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 19, 1973, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Runtime
1h 54m