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Scorpio is a 1973 American spy film directed by Michael Winner and written by David W. Rintels and Gerald Wilson. It stars Burt Lancaster , Alain Delon , and Paul Scofield . Delon plays the title character, a hitman hired by the CIA to assassinate his mentor (Lancaster), a former agent suspected of treason.
The film was released on December 5, 1973, in New York [40] and on December 18 in Los Angeles. [11] The opening week in New York garnered $123,000. [41] Serpico was released nationwide on February 6, 1974. [42] The film was a critical and commercial success. [11]
Scorpio Rising is a 1963 American experimental short film shot, edited, co-written and directed by Kenneth Anger, and starring Bruce Byron as Scorpio. Loosely structured around a prominent soundtrack of 1960s pop music , it follows a group of bikers preparing for a night out.
The Scorpio Killer was largely based on the contemporary real life Zodiac Killer, and Robinson integrated many known aspects of that serial killer's personality into his acting, such as a disturbed sense of humour and a sadistic inclination to taunt his pursuers. In the film, his character murders a young woman, a 10-year old boy, a teenage ...
Based on a manga by Tōru Shinohara, the film stars Meiko Kaji as Nami Matsushima, a woman who is sent to prison after being betrayed by her detective lover, against whom she seeks revenge. The film was followed by several sequels : Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (also released in 1972), Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable , and ...
The Scorpio Letters is a 1967 American-British thriller film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Alex Cord, Shirley Eaton and Laurence Naismith. It was produced by MGM Television and shot mainly at MGM studios in Hollywood. [1] [2] It was broadcast by ABC in the United States while being given a theatrical release in several countries ...
Graver claimed that Moon in Scorpio was the only project he ever worked on that made him want to “get into a fistfight.” Although the movie was never released theatrically, Graver claimed it made the producers more than a $1,500,000 profit from video sales and TV and cable showings.
In 1976 David Birney starred as Serpico in a TV-movie called Serpico: The Deadly Game (also known as "The Deadly Game"), produced by Dino De Laurentiis Corporation, Emmett G. Lavery Jr. Productions, and Paramount Television. [42] The TV-movie, broadcast by NBC, served as a pilot to a short-lived Serpico TV series the following fall on the same ...