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Watch: Topaz 1969 123movies, Full Movie Online – A high ranking Russian official defects to the U.S., where he is interviewed by U.S. Agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a French spy ring codenamed “Topaz” has been passing N.A.T.O. secrets to the Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre Devereaux to expose the spies..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 18,498
	69% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 302 Popularity: 9.139 | TMDB

Reviews:

Brilliant sequences in an unsung Hitchcock film
While Leon Uris’ book is a good read, Hitchcock’s adaptation of the book for cinema captures much of the book’s selling points. The killing of Juanita by Rico Parra is central to book and the film. The book has a sensual scene where Juanita distracts Parra to allow Andre to escape before she is killed. In the film, Hitchcock dispenses with the sexual distraction to go directly to the killing. The killing of Juanita captured by the overhead camera, shows the purple gown spreading in the floor as blood would have spread. No blood is shown—only the gown. What a brilliant shot from Hitchcock and cameraman Jack Hildyard! The second remarkable facet of the movie is the performance of Phillip Noiret as a French bureaucrat and spy. The lunch sequence (a typical Hitchcock food event) may look simple but the montage of shots capturing Noiret’s apparent interest in the food than the conversation is truly engaging. Noiret is a fine actor. So is Michel Piccoli. The two of them outshine Frederick Stafford and John Forsythe.

The third most fascinating shot is post-torture interrogation of Mrs Mendoza—the whispered response from a posture that reminds one of Michelangelo’s Pieta—with her dead husband replacing the dead Christ.

Hitchcock’s perseverance with “marriage” continues. Andre blandly tells his daughter of his wife “She left me. I did not leave her” after a tryst with his lover in Havana. The Michel Piccoli character says of Andre’s wife “Andre, his wife and I were very close. She married him.” We know later that Andre’s wife was cheating on him as she recognizes the Piccoli character’s phone number at his secret love nest.

The defection sequence in Copenhagen might look clumsy—but Hitchcock’s style is everywhere—faces in mirrors, close up of a porcelain figure about to be dropped with no music in the background, etc. What was most amusing was the criticism of the American espionage agents: “We would have done it better” and the exchange of words by the defector in Washington, D.C. Andre’s outburst to his bosses on the outcome of French intervention in the defection would lead to the defector’s assassination is equally poignant had the film ended with the French spy defecting to Russia (one of the alternate endings).

Finally, Hitchcock’s use of the newspaper headlines during key scenes in the background was interesting: The Pieta shot had the newspaper shot in the background and the newspaper left behind on a bench in Paris is the final shot. The alternate endings—the duel and the departure of the spies to two cold-warring countries would not have served well as well the suicide of the spy suggested by the gunshot in his house.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 23 min (143 min), 2 hr 5 min (125 min) (Portugal), 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (edited)
Budget 4000000
Revenue 6000000
Status Released
Rated M/PG
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Leon Uris, Samuel A. Taylor
Actors Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,455 m (shortened version) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm