The classic spy tale?
Next week's film is not really your classic spy tale. While it has elements of all the great spy thrillers, complete with mystery, exciting chases, intrigue, disguises, and a little romance, it is so much more than that. For our second week in our summer film schedule, we will be showing Ronald Neame's fantastic classic film Hopscotch.
This film, starring the great Walter Matthau in one of his best performances outside of The Odd Couple, Glenda Jackson, and Sam Waterston, will keep you laughing and guessing the whole way through.
Matthau plays CIA agent Miles Kendig who, after years in the field, has been relegated to a desk job under a ridiculous and incompetent supervisor. Deciding that he's had enough of the bureaucracy, Matthau smuggles out documents and writes the letter to his supervisor on his way out. The letter that many of us have wanted to write a time or two in life where you tell your boss just what you think of them and everything else you wanted to say but couldn't. Yes, that letter. And to make it worse, he announces that he is going to write his memoirs...basically telling all the CIA's secrets and actions that he has faithfully kept quiet about for decades.
What follows is a hilarious, cat-and-mouse chase as Matthau writes and moves from country to country and the CIA endeavors to track him down. There is drinking vodka in a park with the head of the KGB. There is wit, humor, slap-stick comedy. The disguises are fun and perhaps a little ridiculous. And of course, there is Walter Matthau singing Puccini throughout the whole affair giving the movie even more light hearted fun. This is definitely a film not to be missed.
Join us on Monday, June 29th at 7 p.m. in the Science Building, Room 104.
This film, starring the great Walter Matthau in one of his best performances outside of The Odd Couple, Glenda Jackson, and Sam Waterston, will keep you laughing and guessing the whole way through.Matthau plays CIA agent Miles Kendig who, after years in the field, has been relegated to a desk job under a ridiculous and incompetent supervisor. Deciding that he's had enough of the bureaucracy, Matthau smuggles out documents and writes the letter to his supervisor on his way out. The letter that many of us have wanted to write a time or two in life where you tell your boss just what you think of them and everything else you wanted to say but couldn't. Yes, that letter. And to make it worse, he announces that he is going to write his memoirs...basically telling all the CIA's secrets and actions that he has faithfully kept quiet about for decades.
What follows is a hilarious, cat-and-mouse chase as Matthau writes and moves from country to country and the CIA endeavors to track him down. There is drinking vodka in a park with the head of the KGB. There is wit, humor, slap-stick comedy. The disguises are fun and perhaps a little ridiculous. And of course, there is Walter Matthau singing Puccini throughout the whole affair giving the movie even more light hearted fun. This is definitely a film not to be missed.Join us on Monday, June 29th at 7 p.m. in the Science Building, Room 104.
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