Hopscotch

DVD 2017

After being relegated to a desk job, CIA agent Miles Kendig writes a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate: he's having too much fun.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Garfield, Brian, 1939-2018 Film adaptations

Intelligence officers Drama

Official secrets Drama

Retirees Drama

Undercover operations Drama

United States. Central Intelligence Agency Drama

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 163 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 163

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ISBN:

9781681433486

Description:

1 videodisc (105 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
DVD video 4 3/4 in
digital optical mono
widescreen
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: R
CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Hopscotch (Motion picture)

Notes:

Title from title frame
Based on the novel by Brian Garfield
Originally issued as a motion picture in 1980
Essay by critic Glenn Kenny in container
Special features: video introduction featuring interviews with director Ronald Neame and writer Brian Garfield; Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on the Dick Cavett show; alternate audio track originally made for family television viewing; original theatrical trailer; teaser
Director of photography, Arthur Ibbetson ; editor, Carl Kress ; music adaptation, Ian Fraser ; production designer, William Creber
Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (aspect ratio, 2.39:1); Dolby digital mono
In English with optional English SDH subtitles

Control Number:

2273501

UPC:

502883603137
715515202619

Other Authors:

Avco Embassy Pictures, production company
Beatty, Ned, actor
Creber, William, production designer
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Forbes, Bryan, 1926-2013, screenwriter
Fraser, Ian, 1933-2014, arranger of music (expression)
Garfield, Brian, 1939-2018, screenwriter
Ibbetson, Arthur, director of photography
Jackson, Glenda, actor
Kress, Carl, editor of moving image work
Landau, Edie, film producer, presenter
Landau, Ely, film producer, presenter
Lom, Herbert, actor
Matthau, Walter, actor
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Garfield, Brian, 1939-2018. Hopscotch
Neame, Ronald, film director
Waterston, Sam, actor

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