Hopscotch

Hopscotch (1980) is a spy comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Walter Matthau as CIA veteran Miles Kendig.

When his new boss threatens to shelve him in a desk job, Kendig burns his own file and starts writing a memoir — one that will expose every covert operation his agency has run for decades. He mails each chapter to the CIA, the KGB and MI6 simultaneously, just to keep all three on their toes. His old Austrian contact Isobel, played by Glenda Jackson, helps him stay one step ahead as the entire Western intelligence apparatus scrambles to shut him up.

Matthau plays Kendig with a dry, unhurried calm that makes the character's gleeful recklessness all the more convincing. The film pairs this quiet anarchism with a globe-trotting plot that takes itself just seriously enough to work. Watch Hopscotch (1980) online on iFILM.