Synopsis
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.
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Cast
- Burt LancasterCross
- Alain DelonJean 'Scorpio' Laurier
- Paul ScofieldSergei Zharkov
- John ColicosMcLeod
- Gayle HunnicuttSusan
- J.D. CannonFilchock
- Joanne LinvilleSarah Cross
- Mel StewartPick
- Vladek SheybalZemetkin
- Mary MaudeAnne Laurier
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
A jaundiced look at the CIA, bolstered by a terrific cast. [14 Sep 1986, p.6] - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
When you wind a plot up as tightly as this one, it runs along nicely for awhile, but then the last half-hour has to be spent simply resolving everything. - 60
The New York Times
The aphoristic style, combined with Winner's unwavering visual instinct for crushingly obvious detail, helps to push Scorpio out of low dullness into vertiginous absurdity. - 50
Time Out
Winner directs with typically crass abandon, wasting a solid performance from Lancaster and a story that a director like Jean-Pierre Melville might have made something of. - 50
Variety
Despite its anachronistic emulation of mid-1960s cynical spy mellers, Scorpio might have been an acceptable action programmer if its narrative were clearer, its dialog less 'cultured' and its visuals more straightforward. - 40
Village Voice
Scorpio exists merely as a succession of stylistic flourishes without feeling, representative of the emptiest, most uninteresting kind of cinema. [24 May 1973, p.83]
