Hopscotch

Starring: Matthau, Walter and Jackson, Glenda

Product Description

An ex-CIA agent and his lover write a book about the agency, one jump ahead of agents sent to stop them.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 715515202619
• Release Date: January 2017
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Criterion/ Distribution S
• Director: Neame, Ronald
• Starring: Matthau, Walter, Jackson, Glenda
• Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

"I don't remember you being so short, Myerson...."

This is one of Walter Matthau's best movies. And as with all of his movies, there is a great background musical score. They picked just the right actor for each character. I was impressed when he asked the man behind the counter if he knew German (not if he spoke German). Talk about nepotism, David Matthau plays Ross, and someone needs their eyes checked in the credits. The seaplane pilot was defiantly female (supposed to be his daughter-in-law) Walter Matthau plays a top CIA agent who's being confined by office politics (Myerson) to a desk job for not taking out the Russian agent Yaskov, played by Herbert Lom. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Austria, where he links up with his former lover, a fellow ex-agent. Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice from his ex-counter agent from Russia, Mikhall Yaskov, who suggests that Miles Kendig should write his memoirs (his life in the CIA). Miles Kendig sends out copies of his first chapter to the heads of different spy agencies throughout the world. From that point on, he and his old flame, Isobel von Schönenberg (Glenda Jackson), don't have a moment's peace as no agency wants to have their escapades made public. So, Kendig gets to lead a merry global chase. He may be found in the last place you would look. This delights Kendig: 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 surprising towards the end. There were several different angles taken, and depending on your copy, you may see Sam Waterston's face when he is standing on the cliff. Other versions show his shadow only. Will they catch Kendig? If so, what will they do to him? Or will Kendig be dispatched in the pursuit?