The Sell Out (1976)
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Directors
Peter Collinson
Cast
Assi Dayan, Gayle Hunnicutt, Oliver Reed, Richard Widmark, Sam Wanamaker
The story
The CIA, the KGB and the Mossad scheme to eliminate Gabriel Lee, a former CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Bloc but left Eastern Europe to travel to Israel. He seeks his old mentor Sam Lucas for help. Lucas is now running an antiquities store in Jerusalem with his mistress Deborah who was Gabriel's former lover.
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drama film, spy film, thriller film
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