The Russia House (1/10) Movie CLIP - A Virtuoso Comb Player (1990) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION: Barley (Sean Connery) describes the happenings at the writer’s retreat, including his ability to improvise a jazz band. FILM DESCRIPTION: “Barley“ Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who’d rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers’ show in Russia. So he’s surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems that the CIA has through a book show intermediary received a package from a Russian book editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) containing amazingly detailed notebooks written by a cynical Russian physicist named “Dante“ (Klaus-Maria Brandauer). The notebooks show that Russia’s nuclear threat is a joke: Russian rockets “suck instead of can’t hit Nevada on a clear day,“ in the acerbic words of CIA Agent Russell Sheridan (Roy Scheider). But why is Dante sending the notebooks to Blair? H