The Endless Game

• Director: Bryan Forbes
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• Genre: Action
• Movie Type: Unglamorized Spy Film
• Main Cast: Albert Finney
• Release Year: 1989
• Country: IT/UK
• Run Time: 123 minutes

Plot

The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes. Albert Finney plays a retired secret agent called back to active duty. Finney is entrusted with the task of finding out why his fellow retirees are being killed off. One of the victims is a woman who'd once been Finney's lover. Anthony Quayle makes his final screen appearance in this made-for-cable suspenser. Endless Game was written and directed by Bryan Forbes--surprisingly, his first foray into the spy-film genre. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Robert Addie - Second Blond Youth; Denise Alexander - Magistrate; Pamela Armstrong - TV Newscaster; James Barron - Probation Officer; Derek de Lint - Abramov; Sandor Eles - Hansel; Albert Finney - Alec Hillsden; Monica Guerritore - Silvia; Julian Holloway - Waddington; Ian Holm - Control; Pat Keen - Tanya; Mark Kingston; Jennie Linden; Michael Medwin - Bayldon; Nanette Newman; Anthony Quayle; Kristin Scott Thomas - Caroline; George Segal - Jock; John Standing - Belfrage; Stephen MacKenna - Pub Customer; Mark Greenstreet - First Blond Youth; Czeslaw Grocholski - Elderly Man; Sion Tudor Owen - Football Fan

Credit

Bryan Forbes - Director, Philip Shaw - Editor, Ennio Morricone - Composer (Music Score), Maurice Cain - Production Designer, Brian Tufano - Cinematographer, Bryan Forbes - Book Author