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S * P * Y * S
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1767
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S * P * Y * S (1974)
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Would you buy a used secret from these men?
In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland play two CIA agents -- Griff and Bruland -- who are marked for death by their own agency after botching the defection of a Russian ballet dancer (Michael Petrovich). As they repeatedly mess up their assignments and wriggle out of tight corners, they not only find themselves pursued by the CIA, but also by the KGB, the Chinese Communists, and a terrorist group that wants to destroy the CIA.
Release Date: June 28, 1974
distrib: 20th Century Fox
Boxoffice: $8,000,000
Elliot Gould shamelessly tried to recapture his M*A*S*H success with 2 movies in a row that mimicked that movies title -S*P*Y*S and W*H*I*F*F*S -and while the firs did fair business and the 2nd garnered an Oscar nomination both were savaged by the critics.
Trivia: In which film did Donald Sutherland appear unbilled as a corpse?
Which Best Picture nominee from the 80s had another -then unknown-actor who later won an Oscar appear as a corpse and then cut him out of the film?
Who was the actor and what did he win his Oscar for?
In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland play two CIA agents -- Griff and Bruland -- who are marked for death by their own agency after botching the defection of a Russian ballet dancer (Michael Petrovich). As they repeatedly mess up their assignments and wriggle out of tight corners, they not only find themselves pursued by the CIA, but also by the KGB, the Chinese Communists, and a terrorist group that wants to destroy the CIA.
Release Date: June 28, 1974
distrib: 20th Century Fox
Boxoffice: $8,000,000
Elliot Gould shamelessly tried to recapture his M*A*S*H success with 2 movies in a row that mimicked that movies title -S*P*Y*S and W*H*I*F*F*S -and while the firs did fair business and the 2nd garnered an Oscar nomination both were savaged by the critics.
Trivia: In which film did Donald Sutherland appear unbilled as a corpse?
Which Best Picture nominee from the 80s had another -then unknown-actor who later won an Oscar appear as a corpse and then cut him out of the film?
Who was the actor and what did he win his Oscar for?
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