Topaz

Name: Topaz
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: December 19, 1969
Duration: 143 min
Rating: 61

1969

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 19, 1969 | TV-G

Summary: French Intelligence Agent Andre Devereaux becomes embroiled in Cold War politics, first by uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then breaking up an international Russian spy ring.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: TV-G

Runtime: 143 min

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Vincent Canby

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. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Hitch's most plausible, least suspenseful spy thriller, based on Leon Uris' reality-inspired novel of intrigue in Cuba and France. [23 Jun 2006, p.C2]

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Wesley Stenzel

Though one of his later films, Topaz suffers from unusual pacing that drags for long stretches, but it also features exemplary Hitchcock suspense sequences, including a brisk escape set piece in Copenhagen and an impossibly tense scene in Harlem. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Loosely based on the true-life exploits of French spy Philippe de Vosjoli and the 1962 "Sapphire" scandals in which top French officials were uncovered as Soviet agents, the film has a sense of authenticity but fails to fire up as much suspense as most of Hitchcock's intrigues. Read full review

Pauline Kael

A larger, slower, duller version of the spy thrillers [Hitchcock] made in the 30s.

Staff (Not Credited)

At 70, Hitchcock seems suddenly to have forgotten his own recipe. Topaz contains no chills, no fever—and most disappointing, no entertainment. Read full review

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