Argo

     

Argo2012

Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 120 minutes

Argo is a 2012 film about a covert mission to extract six US Embassy employees out of Iran in what is now known as the Canadian Caper, in which parts of an unmade film project for Lord of Light which they had renamed Argo, were used as cover by CIA … more »


[Lester Siegel and John Chambers look back on the success of the operation]

Lester Siegel:
The saying goes, "What starts in farce ends in tragedy."

John Chambers:
No, it's the other way around.

Siegel:
Who said that exactly?

Chambers:
Marx.

Siegel:
Groucho said that?

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