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Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Karin Dor, John Vernon, John Forsythe, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Claude Jade
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Topaz |
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TOPAZ is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1969. The screenplay, based on Leon Uris novel, was written by Samuel Taylor.
1962. Just after the Bay of Pigs affair, an important member of the KGB defects to the United States. He reveals to John Forsythe, a US C.I.A. agent, how to obtain secret papers about the Cuba-USSR armed friendship. Forsythe asks his friend André Devereaux, a member of the french Secret Service, to help him get these informations. Devereaux flies to Cuba and, thanks to Karin Dor, the widow of a Hero of the Cuban Revolution and his lover, gets the proof that nuclear weapons are stocked in the cuban island. Boris Kusenov, the KGB defector, also reveals that important french officials are working for the U.S.S.R. and form an organization called TOPAZ. Devereaux returns to France in order to unmask it.
It's not a good movie but it contains some Hitchcock ingredients worthy to stay in the annals. For fans of the english master only.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Topaz |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding a spy/saboteur
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- nukes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
- France
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Washington D.C.
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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