Topaz
1969
*½
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, John Forsythe, Karin Dor, John Vernon
In the wake of the James Bond franchise Hitchcock directed his own globetrotting spy story in which American, French and Soviet intelligence agencies battle it out during the Cold War. Sadly this is his dullest film. The characters are uninteresting and so is the story, which seems e-n-d-less. Adapted from a novel by Leon Uris.