Product Details

• Actors: Richard Widmark, Oliver Reed, Gayle Hunnicut, Sam Wanamaker
• Directors: Peter Collinson
• Format: NTSC, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Full Screen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Miracle Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 2, 2002
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00067ZHZU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,350 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A retired CIA operative discovers that he is involuntarily back in action due to the sudden urging of his former fellow spy, who had been turned by the Soviet Union, and now wants to return to the American side.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Complicated Friendship Endurance Test, April 14, 2011

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This review is from: The Sell-Out (1975) (DVD)

Warner Archive continues to uncover some rare titles from their library and here's a British/Israeli production from 1976 that's been kicked around budget VHS and DVD labels in sometimes shoddy transfers. Throw them all away for here we have a beautiful 1.85 transfer of Director Peter Collinson's Espionage caper 'THE SELL OUT'. Directed in a very straight forward manner resembling a TV movie of the week, it boasts a great cast and a tricky plot twist but takes a long time getting going. The endurance of friendship is put to the test along with the test of endurance on the audience's patience as we have both heads of the CIA and KGB deciding to eliminate their top operatives once they are no longer in the field. Unfortunately , they decide to get rid of Gabriel Lee played by Oliver Reed with a very good American accent who smells double cross and pays a visit to his old friend and mentor played intensely by Richard Widmark for aide in alluding his assassins. Thrown into the mix is Gayle Hunnicutt who plays Widmark's wife and who had a past history with Reed and you have a triangle of danger. The underrated character actor Vladek Sheybal who cameoed at the beginning of Director Terence Young's Connery Bond 'FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE'-1964 and played the memorable villain Maynard in Director Geoffrey Reeve's excellent 'PUPPET ON A CHAIN'-1972 again shines as the Dutchman, an assassin extroadinaire who will stop at nothing in bringing Reed to his demise. Director Sam Wanamaker takes a turn at thespianship as the head of the CIA. The only beef is that it could have been more tightly edited and in spots , its very slow going. Available through Amazon.com as a DVD-R , the price is kinda steep but worth it for all you Spy fans out there. Pretty good bantering between Reed and Widmark makes this endurance test worth experiencing and shows what great actors they truly were. All in all, it makes for a memorable cat and mouse thriller.