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Director:
Henri Verneuil
Writers:
Gilles Perrault (writer)
Henri Verneuil (writer)
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Release Date:
November 1973 (USA) more
Genre:
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Plot:
A Russian diplomat hatches a complicated plan to enable him to defect to the West. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Yul Brynner ... Col. Alexei Vlassov

Henry Fonda ... Allan Davies

Dirk Bogarde ... Philip Boyle
Philippe Noiret ... Lucien Berthon
Michel Bouquet ... Tavel
Virna Lisi ... Mrs. Annabel Lee
Guy Tréjan ... Robert Deval
Elga Andersen ... Kate Cross
Marie Dubois ... Mrs. Walter
Nathalie Nerval ... Tatiana Vlassov
André Falcon ... French Diplomat
Robert Party ... Debecourt
William Sabatier ... Mercadier - Foreign Affairs official
Robert Alda ... Polygraph interrogator
Paola Pitagora ... Jeannine Santelli
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Die Schlange (West Germany)
Il serpente (Italy)
Night Flight from Moscow (USA) (reissue title)
The Serpent (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:113 min | Japan:120 min | UK:124 min
Country:
France | Italy | West Germany
Language:
English | German | French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Netherlands:12
Filming Locations:
France more
Company:
Euro International Film (EIA) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Too Good To Be True, 1 June 2008
6/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Talk about international cast, this French film Le Serpent boasts players from America, The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Russia. It's an espionage story with Yul Brynner as a high ranking KGB colonel defecting to the west and bringing a whole lot of goodies with him.

What Brynner is bringing to CIA chief Henry Fonda is a list of fifth columnists who've been operating for years in the west in all the western allied countries. A lot of deaths start occurring in all these countries as problems are dealt with one way or another.

Of course this information wreaks havoc with the intelligence services of the west. Which just might have been the desired Soviet intention.

In this cast the best performance hands down is that of Dirk Bogarde as a Kim Philby like MI5 man. Somebody's had their eye on him for a long time.

Spying can be a dirty business and Le Serpent certainly shows the seamier side of it. If you're looking for James Bond like heroics this isn't your film.

Le Serpent is in the tradition of the Richard Burton classic The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Not as good but better than a whole lot of stuff these old timers were appearing in during the Seventies.

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