Hopscotch
Hopscotch is a 1980 American comedy spy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty and Herbert Lom. The screenplay was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on Garfield's 1975 novel.
Plot
At Munich's Oktoberfest, veteran CIA field agent Miles Kendig and his team foil a microfilm transfer. When Kendig returns to Washington, his boss, Myerson, reassigns him to a desk job because Kendig did not arrest Yaskov, the head of the KGB in Europe. Kendig explains to Myerson that he knows how Yaskov thinks, and it would take time and resources to identify and learn about a new replacement. Kendig's good friend and protégé Joe Cutter is nevertheless assigned to take over his mentor's old job.