Scorpio

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Scorpio

PG,

1973,

1h 54m,

Action

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59%

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40%

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40%

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250+ Ratings

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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Critics Consensus

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

Jun 3, 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.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Jun 3, 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.

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George McKinnon

Boston Globe

Jun 3, 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.

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Jun 3, 2021

3/5

Lancaster manages to combine the fear of the fugitive with the toughness and resource we have come to expect of him.

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John Huddy

Miami Herald

Jun 3, 2021

A slick, talky, occasionally theatrical, but frequently audacious and exciting yarn...

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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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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

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