The Sell Out
– This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the m..
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
01 May 1977
English, Hebrew
Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.
Peter Collinson
Murray Smith (screenplay), Jud Kinberg (screenplay), Murray Smith (original story)
Oliver Reed, Richard Widmark, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker
The KGB and the CIA have struck a bargain to eliminate former agents who might prove embarrassing to either of their espionage organizations. The chief of the CIA mission in Lebanon names Gabriel Lee as the next agent it wishes to have liquefied. Lee is vacationing in Israel when the assassins fail at their first attempt to kill him and he turns to his former mentor, also a retired agent, for assistance.