HITCHCOCK IN SPYLAND AGAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300230003-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 24, 1970
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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4 ,IAN 1970
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in spyland ~aa,ai~
By Louise Sweeney audiences -- a trick which adds to the
'that you're never sure just how tingling ?r rcncn career.aipiomat Andre Devereaux,;;
a;~thn film is V..vnn in +hn h.?Ae of Wiz, zee off'-again-on-again accent and a
11011: In one tragic plane scene he might be
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" operating Dany Robin is his unhappy, lacquered
espionage ring called "Topaz
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from the heights of the French Governmentwife, Karin Dor his fiery Cuban underF.
'in the early '60's, was a gripper from be."". t;I?ound mistress. Michel Piccoli is suave
i ginning to end, The Hitchcock film based and sinister as a top French official. The
nn it rretc nff +n. ~ nln++.,ri?n m-1 a+.,r+- best known face. in the group is that of John
the whirlwind defection of a top Russian of. ":',.r'orsythe, who competently plays American
a;?, Embassy career officer . Michael Nord-'
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strom. In a minor role, Roscoe Lee Browne,
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~_. getaway car, waiting plane, touchdown in
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Axel Arosenius. evlces dr clg tenmg sus-
. Hitchcock's "Tnnaz" rlnnen't ,t.Qv with ''i? pense. But there are no really memorable
[',delightfully and dourly played by Per-,'.. on the fear-'of unseen danger that is one''
of his favorite d ?~f h ? h t
umsy operation-it wasn't theme way we like having the Russians in the getaway.
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N; and it' differs along other plot lines. But, wnicn only the murderer is not following the,,
";'Samuel Taylor's screenplay has kept the .....:'volley. Some viewers will be relieved that .
Cuban?missile?crisis subplot. The ending is a< . ,;.;,there are none of the moments of sheer,.,
1 ^Watch the airport scene.. ':~~ ',cock.,And those who go to see his films for
subliminally;, as he usually does in his films. ' It's a good Hitchcock but not a great Hitch.
particular disappointment after the book. It teyror which marked the shower scene in
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