SHOOTING A SCENE UP ON CAPITOL HILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210020-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 28, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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By KIKI LEVATIIES "STEPHEN," said Uiner to thing that has not impressed
him
star staff writer his personal assistant, "a ci- in Washington so far is
A group of tourists walked gar." Winner rose from his the food. "It is abominable
down the steps of the Library chair and took off his jacket, everywhere and poorly and
of Congress yesterday toting glancing down at his slightly pompously. To help matters,
cameras and pointing to the protruding stomach. "That he carries his own English
Capitol across the street. Be- chocolate ice cream sundae I marmalade.
tween them dashed a woman had last night didn't do any Winner said he is surprised
in a- sleeveless white linen good at all, at all . . . damn, that young people in America,
dress, followed, a few seconds this chair is the wrong color think the CIA shouldn't exist.
.later by a woman in a pink blue. The Cambridge colors "They seem to think that it is
some unfair snort of the estab-.
This uneventful scene was
witnessed by 50 people and
:filmed over 12 times by British
director Michael Winner for a
new United Artists spy thriller
called "Scorpio."
The movie stars Burt Lan-
caster, an aging CIA agent
suspected of .treason who is
pursued in the film by Alain
Delon, a French agent hired
by the CIA to kill him, and
Paul Scofield, a Russian
agent.
The two women who
emerged from the library on
the first day of shooting were
Joanne Linville (in white) and
(his alma mater) are a lighter
shade. This is the Oxford col- lishment," he said, "Outside
or. But I don't suppose anyone` America, spying is lust consid-
here will notice. ... What Bred part of statehood from its
lens are you using? beginnings."
"Twenty-five, Sir," replied Asked if "Scorpio" was pro-
the cameraman. or anti-CIA, Winner replied,
"All right, ready, every- "If you admire the CIA, I sup-
body? Action." pose you ii;ould think that it is
Capitol police and public re- an anti-CIA film. If- you hate
lations officers from the it, you would say it is pro-CIA.
Library of Congress stood I think that the film will be a
nearby smiling at the perform- fairly accurate portrait..
ance of actors and director. "The a g e n t s themselves
Extras waited excitedly to be have been helpful and im-
called onto the set. Each re- ' mensely cheerful."
ceived $25 for a day of running After Washington, the re-
up and down the steps-more maining eight weeks of filming
than most of the film crew will take. place in London, Vi-
Gayle Hunnicutt (in pink),. the were making on English sale-
female leads: According to the ries.
script, they had just ex- Winner, his film crew and
changed an important bit of band of secret agents will be
secret information. in Washington for the next two
"THIS IS a key scene in the weeks with filming at the Lin-
movie," said Winner, "that coln Memorial, the White
will be projected and analyzed House, Union Station and resi-<
in the film by the agents." dential areas throughout the'
It is, so to speak, a film city.
within a film. WINNER, who directed the
Before the shooting began; successful comedy "The Jok
Winner 'carefully paced Miss ers" in 1966, and more recent-
Hunnicutt through the action ly "The Nightcomers" and
land personally brushed out "Chato's Land," has often
her well-coiffed hair. ("In the said, "Life is lived in real
50s, Hollywood actresses al- places, not film studios.".
ways had perfect hair," he Whenever possible and regard-
said. "It is unnatural and I less of considerable cost, he
hate it.") avoids studios. For the last
"Everyone move when I say five weeks an office has been
the word, action," said Win- operating in Washington to
'ner, returning ; to his blue work out the details of casting
director's chair. and shooting.
"ACTION." "Outsiders think that Wash-
The group began to move ington is just white marble
down the steps. and monuments," W i n n e r
Winner watched the action said. "It really has a very
intensely. "Cut," he yelled. warm lived-in feeling and I
"I'm terribly sorry, sir," think it is the most beautiful
said the still-life cameraman, city in the country."
Bob Ross, who had unknowing- The 36-year-old director and
Ay gotten himself into the plc- his entourage are staying at
lure, Ile slunk back; cursing the Watergate in a suite over-
h-'O'n 0 Aft
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enna and Paris. FVinner will
then personally do the editing.
"Scorpio" is scheduled for re-
lease sometime next year.-
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