Hopscotch
The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker Ronald Neame. Based on Brian Garfield’s best-selling novel, the blithe thriller centers on Miles Kendig (Matthau), a disillusioned retired CIA agent who, with the help of a chic and savvy Viennese widow (Jackson), threatens to publish his memoirs and expose the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. Despite being in major hot water with his former colleagues, Kendig refuses to get in line—he’s having too much fun. Set to the sounds of Mozart, this lighthearted sendup of the paranoid dramas of its era is an expertly crafted, singular take on the spy movie.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interviews from 2002 with director Ronald Neame and writer Brian Garfield
- Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer and teaser
- Optional broadcast television audio track for family viewing
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny
New cover by Jonas Bergstrand/Problem Bob
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interviews from 2002 with director Ronald Neame and writer Brian Garfield
- Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer and teaser
- Optional broadcast television audio track for family viewing
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny
New cover by Jonas Bergstrand/Problem Bob
Cast
- Walter Matthau
- Kendig
- Glenda Jackson
- Isobel
- Sam Waterston
- Cutler
- Ned Beatty
- Myserson
- Herbert Lom
- Yaskov
- David Matthau
- Ross
- George Baker
- Westlake
- Ivor Roberts
- Ludlum
- Lucy Saroyan
- Carla
- Severn Darden
- Maddox
Credits
- Director
- Ronald Neame
- Producers
- Edie and Ely Landau
- Screenplay
- Brian Garfield
- Screenplay
- Bryan Forbes
- Executive in charge of production
- Mort Abrahams
- Production design
- William Creber
- Cinematography
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Editing
- Carl Kress
- Associate producers
- Jonathan Bernstein
- Associate producers
- Brian Garfield
- Music
- Ian Fraser
- Executive producer
- Otto Plaschkes
- Based on the novel by
- Brian Garfield
A scene from Hopscotch
