BURT LANCASTER AN AGING CIA AGENT IN FILM SHOT IN D.C.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210016-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 31, 1972
• Content Type: TRANS

50 4~k-c?CI,`4 to'-f"
RADIO-TV MONITORING SERVICE, INC.
3408 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N. W. WASHINGTON. D. C. 20016 244-8682
PROGRAM: ?
DATE:
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
MAY 31, 1972
STATION OR NETWORK:
TIME:
WRC-TV
7:00-7:30 PM
BURT LANCASTER AN AGING CIA AGENT IN FILM SHOT IN D.C.
GLENN RINKER: An aging CIA agent, a Russian ?py and a
freelance assassin from France, all of them hale belic-,,e c',ara.c<
tees , have been plying thels various crafts in the streets of
Washington these past few days. Today they were in an alley at
10th and B Streets, and that's where Richard L. Coe caught up
with them.
RICHA' L. COE : Once again they're making a movie with
our town as the background, only this time thor are some differ-
ences. It's not the usual monumental scenes we're ? seeing, but
back alidys. And here in this back al:? ey, they're making scenes
for Scorpio. The star of it is that power house of a star,, Burt
Lanca_stor0 (FILM CLIP).
Burt, you've certainly been making movies all over the
globe. This is a new thing, isn't it?
BURT LANCASTER: Well, no, I started doing that many years
ago, virtually every sunnier. When I was first startia~g in films
I would find some occasion to do a :# .J.ri abroad., so I could take
my family with me. And I've travelled, outside of the actual, out-
side of the orient proper, I've been in mlaost parts of the world
making films.
RICHARD L. COE: It would seem -- then there's a kind
of boring quality that you have to put up with in case of all. this.
For instance were sitting around here even now.
BURT LANCASTER: Yes, yes.
RICHARD L. COE: Then the movie world is really stand
up and wait, it's like the army?
BURT LANCASTER: Yes, exactly, exactly. As a matter of
Approved For Release 2005/01/13 : CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210016-7
 Approved For Release 2005/0193 : CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210016-7
fact, T:al:incg m vies p^mple keep 4 Cds?.deri P haw you Reop doinq th.e
s iaa thing over and aver. The 'Ean .' as . woer. ing with now, M:-F. aae l
Winter, edits all his own films he doesn't Pn7a~3'
an editor pro pe:r. 6'e likes to . :.e three shots of everythir;*, _: c '
when he likes it he will r; i.nt ' three tf.-;.os, and use the three
shots. He ke -pr them in his cult n.g room So he does.-alt ha z to
send out for a reprint, tlh.e nest day, or ':tor a ou 18AUi , a.--l get
what they cell a dupe back, he uses iGlao;? actuz l th:t oe f:: ..ri s. And
you will, often (7.0 a :filet so$ie 3 t ca, y s~` e a { T si r". ce way' S
running up and down this a 3.ley >n a r_ea . at fu t l sped :and b ck:.n
it up 'I nd demon, screech .n ; o rakes a..n).d a?.l this stua f, alla
fightir, the cro:ad.s :.hat, when they realizedd a rmovie vas bein
made, io e all over the place. e didn `t iave enough officers ,
wwe didn't have enough barriers , and it 'was a mad day , to say thh,e
lea Dt. And 1 did some scenes over eleven times bec use people.
would be In t.Aae cr4I,-ad and the shot wouldn't be any good. They'd
poke their noses n the gray and th.e_i:- handy and things and that.
k ind o r
RIC -LARD L. CbE: Well then this Is soi tithing th.e t the.
general public.' when they loo at ? movie P.1h.at take. , Say, One
gee, ore. minute, they don't realize th t it really is days
1TJ1 UJICASiER: Wt'e shot tit 5:he ft bona. Airport the
first daay of shooting, the first cd,Gy 2?r e:', fior fiyre hours :CoOr
exactly thirty seconds of f .lma. (CHUC LL;k ~) . 3ut hat's
:hat ` s the natir a oh' the game.
. RICHARD L. CCE : So here we a?Y e in a back: ..cloy i
S o o.
Wash.ing`ton, sxaith Burt Lancaste3t rAa.>.an J a scene; fror,
This is Richard L . Coo , news 4 , Fia.:a~ rid; ? on.
Approved For Release 2005/01/13 : CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210016-7