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Topaz (1969) Hitchcock takes you behind the actual headlines to expose the most explosive spy scandal of this century! Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role ...
1 day ago · Biographer Stephen Rebello claimed Universal imposed two films on him, Torn Curtain (1966) and Topaz (1969), the latter of which is based on a Leon Uris novel, partly set in Cuba. Both were spy thrillers with Cold War -related themes.
3 days ago · Right after the one-two punches of ‘Psycho’ and ‘The Birds’ - the latter perhaps his most humane picture - Hitchcock released two films widely regarded as his weakest. One of them, ‘Torn Curtain,’ was released 58 years ago today, on July 14, 1966. (The other was ‘Topaz’ in 1969.)
Jul 3, 2024 · Over 400 filmgoers have voted on the 45+ Best Movies Of 1969. Current Top 3: True Grit, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ... vote on everything
2 days ago · Topaz was not well received in 1969 for a number of reasons. First, Hitchcock had been making films since 1925 and expectations were perhaps too high for Topaz. He only made two more films, so it is late Hitch. A Cold War spy thriller was not what his audience expected. Much of the film is set in Europe: Copenhagen and Paris, not what was expected.
4 days ago · Karin Dor (Topaz, 1969), beautiful though she is, doesn’t quite make it as a Scream Queen. Atmosphere is the best element here, from the opening march from dungeon to execution through long echoing corridors to the Hieronymous Bosch-inspired backdrop of the castle, and the bodies that appear to have dived headling into trees rather than merely dangling from them.
4 days ago · The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
