Release Date: 1980-09-26
Overview: When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Rating: 7 / 10
Walter Matthau
as Miles Kendig
Glenda Jackson
as Isobel
Sam Waterston
as Jack Cutter
Ned Beatty
as Myerson
Herbert Lom
as Yaskov
Bryan Forbes - Screenplay
Brian Garfield - Screenplay
Ronald Neame - Director
Jonathan Bernstein - Associate Producer
William J. Creber - Production Design
A simply delightful little film. After growing tired of the job, CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out of the business once and for all. Fearing that his peace, and maybe his life, could be thr...