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Friday, April 20, 1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 5-D 'Scorpio' Scores on Most Counts as Cloak and -Bagger Filmt Washington Mall to Vienna's Ring. "Gayle Hunnicutt plays De-Ion's girl friend. John Colicos and J. D. Canno.i are in the vincingly resourceful ally to, CIA's home office, and Mel Lancaster.

1 Stewart, who was so good in The screenplay is by David; "Trick Baby," makes a con- W. Rintels and Gerald Wilso0' midst to do any real spying. The movie is at the Duke and a number of area theaters. Burt Lancaster is the CIA's man. His bosses have ordered professional to be on cozy terms with his opposite number in the KGB, a "dedicated Communist who survived the persecution of the Stalinists I VI Sinatra to End Retirement, Do TV Special Nov.

him killed because they are and has a low opinion of the convinced he is working for intelligence of the men cur- humanity out of it. Meanwhile Lancaster is dodging Delon and worrying about; the wife he. left behind under surveillance in Washington. In addition to the problem of staying alive, he must engineer her escape. ALL THIS keeps him and everyone else very busy, and director Michael Winner lets no moss grow on the movie, which has a' couple of very satisfying confrontations and the obligatory international reach in locale, from the rentlv in residence in the year-old singer announced Alfred Di Scipio, president Thursday that Sinatra will of the Magnavox Consumer star, in a one-hour special on Electronics sponsor of tha NBC-TV the evening of Nov.

11. Sinatra special, said "we are; NEW YORK (UPI). Frank Sinatra, who retired as a1 public performer in a blaze of publicity in June 1971, will Tuesday night, Sinatra en- most pleased" by Sinatra un-retire this least to Kremlin. played by Paul Scofield, he is more credible than he has any right to be. Scofield and Lancaster play sly old foxes to the rigid, but-toned-down young men who have moved into the business to take the romance and ort-ainol at the Procirlont-ial Hopicinn tn "return tn tho nori.

the extent of one television dinner for Italian Prime formance stace. We considel The Other Side. Alain Delon is the young, ruthless assassin chosen for the job because he knows Lancaster's mental processes very well, having worked with him cordially on past assignments. When Lancaster disappears, Delon finds him more quickly than anyone else could. LANCASTER is enough of a special.

this a truly historic event; Minister Giulio Andreotti at the White House. ft A spokesman for the 56- By WILLIAM B. COLLINS Inquirer Entertainment Writer Some of us consider spy movies a great form of relax-, ation. "VVe enjoy being mysti- fied. We.

just sit there anl accept whatever happens as long as one exciting moment follows another in reasonably quick succession. We are willing dumb clucks, passive, unquestioning, and undemanding except for one thing: we expect the mysteries to be cleared up in an unequivocal way at the end. This is where "Scorpio" fails us. Not only, does it fail to come out flatly and say what has been what, it actually introduces a new plication in the last five utes that distracts our weak minds and leaves us feeling either stupid or cheated. OTHERWISE, "Scorpio" is a swell example of its kind, a story about spies who spy on each other, a dagger under everyone's cloak and suspicion endemic.

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