Topaz [Blu-ray]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Overview

Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is supplying Castro -- and, by extension, Moscow -- with NATO secrets; it is up to Devereaux to liquidate the "mole." Aiding Devereaux is CIA agent Nordstrom (John Forsythe) and aristocratic anti-Castro Cuban Juanita (Karin Dor), who happens to be the girlfriend of pro-Castroite Rico Parra (John Vernon). The director seems to be in awe of the fact-based storyline, and as a result, the film is more cut-and-dried than most Hitchcock efforts. Three different endings were filmed for Topaz; the Laserdisc version carries all three, as does the print available to the American Movie Classics cable service. According to the MPAA, the film was originally rated M but later changed to PG; however, a number of home-video issues of Topaz officially list it as "Not Rated."

Product Details

Release Date:	05/06/2014
UPC:	0025192182266
Original Release:	1969
Rating:	PG
Source:	UNIVERSAL
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:23:00
Sales rank:	26,826

Special Features

Topaz: an appreciation by film historian and critic Leonard Maltin; Alternate endings; Storyboards: the Mendozas; Production photographs; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Frederick Stafford	Andre Devereaux
John Forsythe	Michael Nordstrom
Dany Robin	Nicole Devereaux
John Vernon	Rico Parra
Karin Dor	Juanita de Cordoba
Michel Piccoli	Jacques Granville
Philippe Noiret	Henri Jarre
Claude Jade	Michele Picard
Michel Subor	Francois Picard
Roscoe Lee Browne	Philippe Dubois
Per-Axel Arosenius	Boris Kusenov
Edmon Ryan	McKittreck
Sonja Kolthoff	Mrs. Kusenov
Tina Hedstrom	Tamara Kusenov
John Van Dreelen	Claude Martin
Donald Randolph	Luis Uribe,Luis Uribe
Roberto Contreras	Munoz
Carlos Rivas	Hernandez
Lewis Charles	Mr. Mendoza
Anna Navarro	Mrs. Mendoza
John Roper	Thomas
George Skaff	Rene D'Arcy
Roger Til	Jean Chabrier
Sandor Szabo	Emile Redon
Alfred Hitchcock	Man in Wheelchair
Lew Brown	American Official
Tina Hedstr?m	Actor
Hal Taggart	Ambassador
Sandor Szabo Sr.	Emile Redon
Maurice Jarre	Composer

Technical Credits

Samuel A. Taylor

Samuel A. Taylor	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Alfred Hitchcock	Producer
Albert Whitlock	Special Effects
Waldon O. Watson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Albert J. Whitlock	Special Effects