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May 1977 (USA) morePlot:
The KGB and the CIA have struck a bargain to eliminate former agents who might prove embarrassing to either of their espionage organizations... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
'Twas only a payday for Widmark. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Oliver Reed | ... | Gabriel Lee | |
| Richard Widmark | ... | Sam Lucas | |
| Gayle Hunnicutt | ... | Deborah | |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Harry Sickles | |
| Vladek Sheybal | ... | Dutchman | |
| Ori Levy | ... | Major Benjamin | |
| Peter Frye | ... | Kasyan | |
| Assi Dayan | ... | Lt. Elan (as Assaf Dayan) | |
| Shmuel Rodensky | ... | Zafron | |
| Fanny Lubitsch | ... | Zafron's Wife (as Fanny Lubitch) | |
| Miguel Pedregosa | ... | Mercedes Man | |
| Yossi Virginsky | ... | 2nd Mercedes Man (as Yossi Verjansky) | |
| Thelma Ruby | ... | School Teacher | |
| Heinz Bernard | ... | Laboratory Officer | |
| Yossi Graber | ... | Coroner |
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Melimot Be-Yerushalaim (Israel: Hebrew title)Spia senza domani, La (Italy)
The Sell-Out (USA)
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Norway:101 min | USA:101 min (DVD) | USA:88 minLanguage:
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UK:15 (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating) | Norway:16 | Iceland:16 | Finland:(Banned) | Sweden:15 | USA:PGMOVIEmeter: 
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In this work filmed entirely in Israel, Richard Widmark gamely portrays Sam Lucas, a "retired" CIA operative who discovers that he is involuntarily back in action due to the sudden urging of his former initiate Gabriel Lee (Oliver Reed) who has been turned by the Soviet Union and now wants to come back into the American fold, not realizing that both players in the game have sent assassins to Israel to eliminate him, and Lucas as well. The direction is flabby with undue emphasis being placed upon silly and, naturally, superfluous stunts and car chases, with an inappropriate free hand being given to Gayle Hunnicut, playing the wife of Lucas and former lover of Lee, whose melodramatism proves distortive for what should be the critical scenes in this leaden affair, while the pudgy Englishman Reed, ill-advised to strip to the waist, has his lines dubbed in order to present an acceptable American accent.