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{{quote| ''"He actually has the balls to hide out in '''my house'''!"''}}
The 1980 [[The Film of the Book|adaptation]] of the Brian Garfield novel, co-written by the original author. This [[Cold War]]-era espionage comedy stars Walter Matthau as Miles Kendig, a CIA field agent who is [[Kicked Upstairs]] after refusing to [[Deadly Euphemism|terminate]] his Soviet counterpart, an affable [[Incredibly Lame Pun|operator]] named Yaskov (Herbert Lom). [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|Ned Beatty]] plays Myerson, the immature bureaucrat who does the kicking — and [[Cluster F
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The novel was a drama written as a counterpoint to the flashy [[James Bond]] stereotypes of espionage. This film is a comedy.
* [[Bang Bang BANG]]: The FBI agents think that a string of firecrackers sounds like a machine gun. They return fire.
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* [[Deadly Euphemism]]: "What did you want me to do, terminate him?"
* [[Large Ham]]: Kendig singing opera while crossing European borders.
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