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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Topaz / Universal Pictures presents ; from the novel by Leon Uris ; associate producer, Herbert Coleman ; screenplay by Samuel Taylor ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal, 2006.

Description:

1 videodisc (2 hr., 23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

video file

DVD video

Region 1

Summary:

The best-selling spy novel bursts onto the screen in this riveting story of adventure and international intrigue. An American CIA agent hires a French operative to travel to Cuba and intestigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, a NATO spy. The inquiry soon spins into a life-threatening escapade of espionage, betrayal and murder.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece.

Subjects:

Spies -- Drama.

Feature films.

Action and adventure films.

Genre:

Feature films.

Action and adventure films.

Other Author:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.

Taylor, Samuel, 1912-2000, screenwriter.

Coleman, Herbert, 1907-2001, film producer.

Forsythe, John, 1918-2010, actor.

Stafford, Frederick, 1928-1979, actor.

Robin, Dany, actor.

Vernon, John, 1932-2005, actor.

Dor, Karin, actor.

Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020, actor.

Noiret, Philippe, actor.

Jade, Claude, 1948-2006, actor.

Subor, Michel, 1935-2022, actor.

Hildyard, Jack, director of photography.

Bumstead, Henry, production designer.

Head, Edith, costumer designer.

Jarre, Maurice, composer, conductor.

Motion picture adapation of (work): Uris, Leon, 1924-2003. Topaz.

Universal Pictures (Firm), production company.

Notes:

"An Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece."

Originally released as the 1969 motion picture by Universal Pictures.

Special features: Topaz: an appreciation by film historian and critic Leonard Maltin; alternate endings: The duel, The airport, The suicide; storyboards: The Mendozas; production photographs; production notes; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; costumes by Edith Head ; production designer, Henry Bumstead ; music composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre.

John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Danny Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Claude Jade, Michel Subor.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono.

For private home use only.

English dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

National Board of Review, USA, 1970 : Best director (Alfred Hitchcock) ; Best supporting actor (Philippe Noiret)

Contents:

Special features: Topaz: an appreciation by film historian and critic Leonard Maltin; alternate endings ; storyboards: the Mendozas ; production photographs; production notes; theatrical trailer.

ISBN:

1417058935

9781417058938

Publisher Number:

28314

Other Number:

70667487

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

981422

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Topaz