Topaz DVD cover

Topaz, director Alfred Hitchcock's 51st movie, filmed between 1968 and 1969, was adapted from a book by Leon Uris. It is a Cold War and spy story with nearly 10 persons, none of them acting with a real heroic impulse. Topaz DVD cover This is a DVD cover. ... Topaz DVD cover This is a DVD cover. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for the amount of research he did for his novels. ... The Cold War was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. ...

It stars Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, John Forsythe, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Per-Axel Arosenius. Claude Jade (born 8 October 1948) is a French actress, who was the star in François Truffauts movies Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run. ... Karin Dor in the 1960s Karin Dor (born February 22, 1936 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German actress who also starred in British (You Only Live Twice) and American films (Alfred Hitchcocks Topaz). ... John Vernon (February 24, 1932–February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. ... Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. ... Philippe Noiret (born October 1, 1930 in Lille, Nord, France) is a French actor. ... John Forsythe (born John Lincoln Freund on January 29, 1918) is an actor. ... Roscoe Lee Browne born 1925 in New Jersey, is a prolific American character actor and voiceover actor of film, theatre and television. ...

The movie was not very successful or popular. Hitchcock changed the script shortly before the beginning of the filming and the distributor Universal forced a different ending to the one preferred by Hitchcock. For Topaz, Hitchcock engaged the 19-year-old French actress Claude Jade. She and Dany Robin, cast as her mother, would provide the glamour in the story. "Claude Jade is a rather quiet young lady," Hitchcock said later, "but I wouldn't guarantee [that] about her behavior in a taxi". Universal Studios logo This article is about the Universal Studios movie studio and Universal Hollywood theme park. ... Claude Jade (born 8 October 1948) is a French actress, who was the star in François Truffauts movies Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run. ...

Three different conclusions were filmed. The first includes a duel between the French agent André Devereaux (Frederic Stafford) and his old friend but traitor Jacques Grandville (Michel Piccoli) in a soccer stadium while his wife (Dany Robin) and his worried daughter (Claude Jade) are waiting outside, the second shows the two men stepping into two different planes, one flying to Paris (with Devereaux) and the other flying to Moscow (with Grandville). The third - official - alternative includes the suicide of Grandville, rudely embedded into the flow of the story. A duel or duel of honour is a form of armed combat in which two individuals participate. ... Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. ... Claude Jade (born 8 October 1948) is a French actress, who was the star in François Truffauts movies Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ...

Image of Dany Robin, Frederick Stafford and Claude Jade: http://members.liwest.at/holzner/topaz.20.gif

There is also a 1945 documentary shot illegally in Japanese internment camps in the western United States during World War II called Topaz (1945 movie).

Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Topaz is a 1945 documentary film which was shot illegally at Japanese internment camps in the western United States during World War II. It was directed by Dave Tatsuno and has been deemed culturally significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film...

External links

• Topaz at the Internet Movie Database