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- Commentary by Leonard Maltin
- Three Alternate Endings
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 20, 2006
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford & John Vernon | |
Performer: | Dany Robin, Michel Piccoli, Claude Jade, Philippe Noiret & Karin Dor | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | William H. Ziegler | |
Screenwriting by | Samuel Taylor | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Hildyard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Topaz tends to move more solidly and less infectiously than many of Alfred Hitchcock's best remembered pix. Yet Hitchcock brings in a full quota of twists and tingling moments.
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Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
Prhaps the poorest film of [Hitchcock's] Hollywood career.
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Radio Times
[Topaz] might appeal to devotees of Le Carré et al, but it certainly doesn't make for dramatically exciting cinema, especially given Hitchcock's flat, seemingly uninterested direction. The bland performances don't help much, either.
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Time Out
Hitchcock's most 'realistic' spy film has turned out to be one of his most stealthily abstract.
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The Spectator
At 70, Hitchcock seems suddenly to have forgotten his own recipe.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
Tt is a technically accomplished film, and its narrative is robust and complex, even if its destination is ultimately of no great significance.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
'60s Hitchcock spy movie has constant peril, violence.
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Common Sense Media
Description by OLDIES.com:
The best-selling spy novel bursts onto the screen in this riveting story of adventure and international intrigue. John Forsythe stars as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative (Frederick Stafford) to travel to Cuba and investigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, A NATO spy. The inquiry soon spins into a life-threatening escapade of espionage, betrayal and murder.
Product Description:
Alfred Hitchcock adapted this political thriller from Leon Uris's dense, complex spy novel, loosely based on actual events in the life of French spy Philippe de Vosjoli. The title, TOPAZ, refers not to the stone but to the Topaz Group, a nefarious band of French spies. Traveling through Cuba, Denmark, New York, and Virginia, among other locations, Hitchcock's tale tells of a Soviet scientist's defection that sparks an international furor extending way beyond the act itself. The story begins with American CIA agent Michael Nordstrom (John Forsythe), who is instrumental in uncovering Russian plans to place missiles in Cuba. For confirmation he turns to French agent Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), who travels to Cuba to gather information. In the process, he discovers evidence of a shocking betrayal. The conclusion of the film is one of four endings Hitchcock filmed. This was one of two cold war-themed films directed by Hitchcock at the urging of his studio, the other being TORN CURTAIN.