Hopscotch / an Avco Embassy film ; Edie and Ely Landau present ; a Ronald Neame film ; screenplay by Brian Garfield and Bryan Forbes ; produced by Edie and Ely Landau ; directed by Ronald Neame.
Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty. Title from title frame. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. Based on the novel by Brian Garfield. Wide screen (2.35:1). Essay by critic Glenn Kenny in container. Special features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; 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Neame and writer Brian Garfield; Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on the Dick Cavett show; alternate audio track originally made for family television viewing; original theatrical trailer; teaser.
Summary:
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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