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Devereaux sends his son-in-law, François, to interview Jarré. Devereaux and Michèle rush to Jarré's flat and find Jarré dead, which is a staged suicide, and François has disappeared. After being clubbed and kidnapped, François managed to escape from his captors' car with an overheard phone number.
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Dubois sneaks into the hotel and bribes Uribe to take the documents from Parra's office to photograph. Parra catches Dubois photographing the documents. Chased and shot at by Cuban revolutionaries, Dubois purposefully knocks into
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also liked the film and wrote that although there was a "loss of momentum" at the climax because of the time taken to resolve the complex plot, the first three quarters of the film were "bravura displays of the fabled
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Hitchcock has brought in a full quota of twists and tingling moments. It is just that the picture seems to move predictably and lacks the fun and surprise blood curdling
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Devereaux researches the leak and invites some of his old friends and colleagues, including Jarré, to a lunch at a fine Paris restaurant under the pretext of helping Devereaux prepare for his inquiry. Devereaux tells the others about Topaz to provoke some reaction. Jarré claims that it is
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pieces which would have given the narrative its much needed boost. It is known that Hitchcock had trouble with the climax (and juggled three different endings); but the one finally chosen for the commercial print here looks as if it could have been devised by anyone." Gary Arnold of
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Nicole tells her family with tearful eyes that since the phone number is Granville's, he must be the leader of Topaz. Granville, exposed, commits suicide (in the American and the French versions) or flees to the Soviet Union (in the British version).
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flight back to the United States. However, the ending apparently confused audiences. Also, screenwriter Samuel Taylor objected to the villain escaping unpunished, and there were fears that the ending would offend the French government.
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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."
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1402:Canby, Vincent (December 28, 1969).
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1498:Kael, Pauline (December 27, 1969).
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1104:"Topaz, Box Office Information"
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1064:List of American films of 1969
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592:Lewis Charles as Pablo Mendoza
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1385:"Big Rental Films of 1970".
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1022:In 1969, Hitchcock won the
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1443:"Film Reviews: Topaz".
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1405:"The Ten Best of 1969"
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520:as Jacques Granville
356:Cuban Missile Crisis
342:. Based on the 1967
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1484:The Washington Post
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295:is a 1969 American
286:Theatrical trailer.
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1920:Young and Innocent
1739:The Mountain Eagle
1601:TCM Movie Database
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1322:Hitchcock's Music
1283:978-0-300-13618-0
1275:Hitchcock's Music
1090:Los Angeles Times
1013:Catherine Deneuve
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111:Claude Jade
101:John Vernon
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1989:Saboteur
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