Scorpio is a 1973 American spy film directed by Michael Winner and written by David W. Rintels and Gerald Wilson.

Delon plays the title character, a hitman hired by the CIA to assassinate his mentor (Lancaster), a former agent suspected of treason.

Cross is an experienced, but retiring Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and assassin who is training freelance hitman Jean Laurier, alias Scorpio, to replace him.

Understanding that the CIA wants him out, Cross flees to Vienna in disguise and reunites with his Soviet opposite and friend, Sergei Zharkov who provides him a safehouse.

Despite blown covers and many failed CIA attempts to ambush him, Cross manages to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

Cross evades capture by the CIA and manages to kill McLeod, the agency director responsible for his wife's death.

The new CIA director and Scorpio's handler Filchock shows him evidence that Cross might have collaborated in the past with other foreign agents and was able to make a hefty sum from it.

The film was based on a script by David W. Rintels which had been bought by Walter Mirisch, who had a deal with United Artists.

[12] Reviewing Scorpio for Time Out magazine, Geoff Andrew took a negative view of the film: "Winner directs with typically crass abandon, wasting a solid performance from Lancaster".

It features an audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman.