Topaz (1969 film)

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Topaz is a 1969 American political thriller spy film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted by Samuel A. Taylor from Leon Uris' 1967 novel. It stars Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Roscoe Lee Browne and John Forsythe. The film is about a French intelligence agent (Stafford) who becomes entangled in Cold War politics before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet spy ring. The story is loosely based on the 1962 Sapphire Affair, which involved the head of France's SDECE in the United States, the spy Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli, a friend of Uris, who played an important role in "helping the U.S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba." Topaz was released by Universal Pictures on December 19, 1969. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial disappointment, though it did win Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (for Philippe...

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