When a CIA operative fails to secure a scientist and his experimental new technology, he teams up with the target’s daughter and takes on a new mission; Rescue the scientist and destroy his weapon so that the soviets who captured him can’t use it against the world.
A messy combination of spy plotlines merge together into one rather fun and entertaining conglomeration as we follow Elly Conway, a writer who winds up caught in a dangerous and humorous web of lies and espionage, in Argylle.
BOOTLEG FILES 904: “The Entertainer” (1976 television film starring Jack Lemmon and Ray Bolger).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
Earlier this week, I received an email from New York City’s Film Forum announcing an upcoming retrospective series honoring Jack Lemmon on his centennial. While I surmised that the usual round-up of Lemmon classics would be screened, I wondered if Film Forum was able to secure a print of his most elusive work – the 1976 made-for-television adaptation of John Osborne’s “The Entertainer.” Alas, “The Entertainer” is not on the Film Forum schedule.
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Friends who have invested in cryptocurrency from information they got on Reddit end up losing money and wanting it back. One of them gathers the group and they find someone they believe is responsible and should pay.
Jason is ready for another summer as a sleepaway camp counselor. Too bad a killer is also prepared in Hell of a Summer, a shallow but fun slasher-satire.