Topaz (1969)
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Genre
- political thriller film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 424 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A French intelligence agent gets caught up in Cold War politics before the Cuban Missile Crisis. He works to break up an international Soviet spy ring.
suspensefuldeliberatecoldintriguingtensedatedslow-burnserious
What happens
Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and John Forsythe. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent (Stafford) who becomes entangled in Cold War politics before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet spy ring. The story is loosely based on the 1962 Sapphire Affair, which involved the head of France's SDECE in the United States, the spy Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli, a friend of Uris, who played an important role in "helping the U.S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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