Night Flight from Moscow
6.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Henri Verneuil Initial DVD release June 17, 2003 Duration | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Thriller Music director Ennio Morricone Country France, Italy, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English
French
German Release date 7 April 1973 Writer Pierre Nord (novel), Gilles Perrault, Henri Verneuil Cast Yul Brynner (Col. Alexi Vlassov), Henry Fonda (Alan Davies), Dirk Bogarde (Philip Boyle), Philippe Noiret (Lucien Berthon), Michel Bouquet (Tavel), Martin Held (Lepke)Similar movies Philippe Noiret appears in Night Flight from Moscow and Topaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Night Flight from Moscow (also known as Le Serpent) is a Franco-German-Italian thriller released in 1973. It was produced and directed by Henri Verneuil. The score was composed by Ennio Morricone.
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- Plot
- Reception
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Plot
Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly-classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and MI6 representative Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde). Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO.
Davies wants to begin operations to arrest the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov was taken in the Soviet Union, not in Turkey, judging from the contours of Mount Ararat in the background. Vlassov also fails a lie detector test after he angrily protests about sexual related questions asked by the CIA during the test.
Reception
A contemporary review by Tony Mastroianni in the Cleveland Press stated this film about espionnage demonstrated how already in 1973 the computer had replaced the dagger. The reviewer also concluded the film had "more good moments than bad".
References
Night Flight from Moscow WikipediaNight Flight from Moscow IMDb Night Flight from Moscow themoviedb.org