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The Osterman Weekend
Sam Peckinpah's end film before his expiry is not a western but a thriller, an modifying of the Robert Ludlum bestseller that still manages to flaunt the director's trademark slow-motion energy sequences. Burt Lancaster is the CIA chief with presidential ambitions, who with a view his own murky reasons gets operative John Hurt to convince TV journalist Rutger Hauer that there are Soviet agents among the guests assembled for the duration of a weekend get off b write down-together. Video gadgets incursion the tone of postal service-Watergate paranoia to breaking aspect, but the chaos sage by the characters is nothing compared to the audience's bafflement at the convoluted cabal. Compelling, nevertheless.
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