Night Flight from Moscow

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Night Flight from Moscow
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Produced by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	Henri Verneuil Gilles Perrault
Starring	Yul Brynner Henry Fonda
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Claude Renoir
Editing by	Pierre Gillette
Distributed by	Pathfinder Pictures
Release date(s)	April 7, 1973 November, 1973
Running time	113 min.
Country	France Italy Germany
Language	English French German
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Night Flight from Moscow or Le Serpent is a French thriller made in 1973. It was produced and directed by Henri Verneuil. The music was written by Ennio Morricone.

[edit] Plot

Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and MI6 representative Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde). Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO. Davies wants to begin operations to take down the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims.