Scorpio

Spies, counter spies and CIA agents galore. No one trusts anyone and a few get killed trying to outsmart each other., Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon play cat-and-mouse games in this Cold War melodrama filmed in Paris, Vienna and Washington, D.C. Zharkov: Paul Scofield. McLeod: John Colicos. Susan: Gayle Hunnicutt. Filchock: J.D. Cannon. Michael Winner directed., In a chilling scenario of international espionage and intrigue, Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon star as two adversaries, one a C.I.A. agent, the other a French assassin hired to kill him., A foreign affairs CIA man, Cross, is accused by the agency of being a traitor. The agency then hires Cross’ friend, and one of the best assassins in business, Laurier, to kill him., An espionage film about a CIA agent in trouble who wants to go straight, but finds himself caught in the system., In this taut espionage yarn, a clever old CIA agent is suspected of working for the enemy and is therefore considered expendable. A department head assigns Scorpio to assassinate the traitor, but soon the hit man finds himself involved in a tangled web of double-crossing double agents.