George Pravda

Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch is a smart and stylish tale of international intrigue and a cat-and-mouse comedy.

Hopscotch -- Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau) knows too much. One of the CIA's top international operatives, he suddenly finds himself relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of the intelligence world. The CIA wants Kendig dead, but he refuses to cooperate--he's having too much fun.

For only this “Pink Panther” series film, the talented Alan Arkin quite successfully assumes the role of Inspector Clouseau usually played by Peter Sellers. The plot centers on a series of Swiss bank robberies under investigation by an uptight Scotland Yard inspector, who naturally becomes infuriated by Clouseau's unwelcome intervention. Meanwhile, the robbers decide to confuse matters by wearing Clouseau masks.

This fourth James Bond installment finds the world threatened with destruction....Sean Connery's fourth turn as indestructible Agent 007 finds him in pursuit of Largo, SPECTRE's mastermind. Largo has hijacked two atomic warheads and a NATO jet during a NATO training mission, and threatens to nuke two English or American cities...if $280 million in ransom is not paid by the British by a certain date. Based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham and on the original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming.