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Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is supplying Castro -- and, by extension, Moscow -- with NATO secrets; it is up to Devereaux to liquidate the "mole." Aiding Devereaux is CIA agent
PG, 2 hr. 23 min.
Jan 1, 1969 Wide
Mar 6, 2001
Universal Pictures
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Topaz is not only most entertaining. It is, like so many Hitchcock films, a cautionary fable by one of the most moral cynics of our time.
The muddled Samuel Taylor screenplay smelled so bad I wouldn't wrap fish in it.
Not Hitchcock's best work, but Hitchcock nevertheless.
Rather tedious Hitchcock, but still heads above most suspensers.
Not Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
Hitchcock most European film is very interesting look at the Cold War.
November 13, 2011Super Reviewer
Topaz isn't all bad but it's certainly not one of Hitchcock's best. I liked the way the agent with a double life was portrayed in the film and unlike a lot of the critics at the time, I'm glad it starred reasonably unknown actors for a change. The lunch scene towards the end of the film was quite good as was the
May 16, 2011Super Reviewer
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