The Sapphire Affair of 1962 connected with the Cuban Missile Crisis was the basis of what similarly titled 1969 Hitchcock thriller?
"Plot. The World of Alfred Hitchcock In the setting of his office at Universal Studios, Alfred Hitchcock shares his vision of what an artistic film should be in the framework of a commercial industry, the difference between suspense films and mystery films, his conception of eroticism and his vision of Scandinavian women. He also explains in details how he created the suspense in the famous sequence of North by Northwest in the corn field. The film contains an original interview with Bruce Dern, who describes Hitchcock’s method as a director, and film clips from North by Northwest, Frenzy, Topaz, and"
"intrigue. In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba. But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts—and he is targeted in an assassination attempt—he soon realizes he’s tangled in a plot far greater than he first understood. The two agents, along with a small band of Cuban exiles and Soviet defectors, chase leads around the globe in a quest to save NATO, themselves, and perhaps the world itself. In 1969, Universal Pictures released Alfred Hitchcock's ""Topaz"", based on the Uris novel. It was"
"1965 for sharing a mistress with a mafia boss. As a result, J. Edgar Hoover is blackmailed into running for President by the mob and allows Russia to establish nuclear missiles in Cuba, Kennedy's impeachment traumatising the nation and allowing the USSR to win the space race while the southern states flee due to the fear of missiles from Cuba. Fearing the repercussions of this timeline, but unwilling to kill Kennedy themselves - and with their attempt to redirect Oswald up to the sixth floor before their past selves arrive failing because his trajectory is now too steep for him"
"his other thrillers followed a similar pattern, including ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (both the 1934 and 1956 versions), ""The 39 Steps"" (1935), ""Sabotage"" (1937), ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940), ""Stage Fright"" (1950) and ""Frenzy"" (1972). London has since featured in many other thrillers, including ""Hunted"" (1952) ""The Yellow Balloon"" (1953) ""Sapphire"" (1959), ""Bunny Lake Is Missing"" (1965), ""The IPCRESS File"" (1965), ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1965), ""The Deadly Affair"" (1966), ""Arabesque"" (1966), ""The Black Windmill"" (1974), ""The Whistle Blower"" (1987), ""The Fourth Protocol"" (1987), ""Blue Ice"" (1992), ""The Innocent Sleep"" (1995) and briefly in """" (1996)."
"noteworthy that it may definitely be recommended to all film-viewers."" In Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Bogdanovich mentions that French critics writing for ""Cahiers du cinéma"" in the 1950s considered ""Under Capricorn"" one of Hitchcock's finest films. Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted"
"1960s with the success of the James Bond series starting in 1962 with ""Dr. No"". Hitchcock had already found success in that genre in 1959 with ""North by Northwest"". The idea behind ""Torn Curtain"" came from the defection of British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to Russia in 1951. Hitchcock was particularly intrigued about Maclean's life in the Soviet Union and about Melinda Marling, Maclean's wife, who followed her husband behind the Iron Curtain a year later with the couple's three children. With these facts as a starting point Hitchcock created a plot line involving an American nuclear physicist,"
"Herrmann's score and replaced him with John Addison, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. ""Topaz"" (1967), based on a Leon Uris novel, is partly set in Cuba. Both films received mixed reviews. Hitchcock returned to Britain to make his penultimate film, ""Frenzy"" (1972), based on the novel ""Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square"" (1966). After two espionage films, the plot marked a return to the murder-thriller genre. Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), a volatile barman with a history of explosive anger, becomes the prime suspect in the investigation into the ""Necktie Murders"", which are actually committed by his friend Bob Rusk (Barry Foster)."
"from, he added to the mystery by playfully answering ""Shangri-La"" – the name of the fictional utopia high in the Himalayas made popular in the novel Lost Horizon. The months preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis involved a complex deception and denial campaign. The Soviet attempt to position nuclear weapons on the island nation of Cuba in Operation Anadyr in 1962 occurred under a shroud of great secrecy, both to deny the United States information on the deployment of these missiles to the island and to deceive the United States' political leadership, military, and intelligence services about Moscow's intentions in Cuba."
"(1967) for piano and orchestra. ""Notorious"" (1946) followed ""Spellbound"". Hitchcock told François Truffaut that Selznick had sold him, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and the screenplay by Ben Hecht, to RKO Radio Pictures as a ""package"" for $500,000 () because of cost overruns on Selznick's ""Duel in the Sun"" (1946). ""Notorious"" stars Bergman and Grant, both Hitchcock regulars, and features a plot about Nazis, uranium and South America. His prescient use of uranium as a plot device led to him being briefly placed under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to McGilligan, in or around March 1945 Hitchcock and"
"on 25 reviews. Some critics have inferred that Hitchcock was hoping to groom the relatively unknown Frederick Stafford as a star of his own making, similar to Tippi Hedren; however, Stafford remained an unknown in Hollywood, though he had a lengthy career in European films. The movie earned $3,839,363 in North American rentals in 1970. Topaz (1969 film) Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 Cold War novel ""Topaz"" by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent who becomes entangled in the Cold War politics of the events"
"work. Rather than strictly working from Alea's film in the manner Douglas worked from Hitchock's ""Marnie"", ""Inconsolable Memories"" plays with the layers of its various sources (Cuba in the 1960s, the 1980s and the present). Some of the photographs reference the locations used in the original Alea film tying together the themes of history and memory. At issue is the utopian promise of the Cuban revolution and its decline, and as well, the parallel Cold War events of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (examined in Alea's film) and the boatlift of 1980. Douglas has long been interested in the"
"decade before Brian De Palma earned a reputation exploiting Hitchcockian motifs, Stone's work in the 1960s employed Hitchcock-like narratives, even while the director was still an active film maker. Hitchcock's influence is especially evident in Edward Dmytryk's ""Mirage"", a suspense-mystery that Stone adapted from the Howard Fast novel ""Fallen Angel"". The narrative has Gregory Peck suffering from ""unconscious amnesia"" while dodging bullets in downtown New York. Although shot in black-and-white, many of its themes and images are reminiscent of ""Vertigo"". Stone used several fairly transparent pseudonyms in his career. As 'Pierre Marton' (literally 'Peter Stone' in French, as well as"
"the time. Thirteen Days (book) Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The book was released in 1969, a year after his assassination. ""Thirteen Days"" describes the meetings held by the Executive Committee (ExComm), the team assembled by US President John F. Kennedy to handle the tense situation that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, from Florida. Robert Kennedy, who was the US Attorney General at the time, describes his brother John's leadership style"
"Hitchcock had intended to film ""Marnie"" first, and in March 1962 it was announced that Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco since 1956, would come out of retirement to star in it. When Kelly asked Hitchcock to postpone ""Marnie"" until 1963 or 1964, he recruited Evan Hunter, author of ""The Blackboard Jungle"" (1954), to develop a screenplay based on a Daphne du Maurier short story, ""The Birds"" (1952), which Hitchcock had republished in his ""My Favorites in Suspense"" (1959). He hired Tippi Hedren to play the lead role. It was her first role; she had been a model in New"
"1960) by Alfred Hitchcock. Both films were about sexually motivated psychopaths, and Reid and Wood likely aimed to capitalize on the similarity of their concepts. Rob Craig suggests that the film can be seen as an early entry in a new subgenre of exploitation films, the so-called ""roughies"". These were sexually oriented films which featured sexual violence towards women. This 1960s subgenre was itself derivative of ""Psycho"". The primary position of the film is that there is a connection between pornography and violence against women. The film in fact suggests one is the cause, and the other the effect. Similar"
"1962 by President of the United States John F. Kennedy as he considered options to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis that included unilateral air strikes to destroy the Soviet missiles based in Cuba or the imposition of naval quarantine around the island to prevent further deliveries of new missiles and materials. The book offered a word-for-word transcription by May and Zelikow of the secret White House recordings made during the crisis. The book was used as the source for the 2000 film ""Thirteen Days"" with Kevin Costner as presidential advisor Kenneth O'Donnell and Bruce Greenwood as President Kennedy. ""Strange"
"the criminal attempts to prevent it. The ""Columbo"" TV movie series is the classic example of this kind of detective story ("""" and ""The Streets of San Francisco"" also fit into this genre). This tradition dates back to the inverted detective stories of R Austin Freeman, and reached an apotheosis of sorts in ""Malice Aforethought"" written by Francis Iles (a pseudonym of ""Anthony Berkeley""). In the same vein is Iles's ""Before the Fact"" (1932), which became the Hitchcock movie ""Suspicion"". Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's ""This Sweet Sickness"" (1960), Simon Brett's ""A Shock to the System"""
"as the storyteller in his films through his cameos), suggests a similar doubling of Rixard Nixon and the young John F. Kennedy during the first televised presidential debates, the same Kennedy who finds his match in Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and finally Khrushchev versus Leonid Brezhnev just as Brezhnev is plotting Khrushchev's downfall. The paranoia in Hitchcock's work becomes an allegory for the kind of fear that became so normal during the Cold War. Echoes of and excerpts from Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) propose the film as an allegory for television - which has, according to Hitchcock, ""brought"
"and Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name in 1948. A fictionalized version of the events formed the basis of Meyer Levin's 1956 novel ""Compulsion"" and its 1959 film adaptation. In 1957, two more fictionalized novels were released: ""Nothing but the Night"" by James Yaffe and ""Little Brother Fate"" by Mary-Carter Roberts. ""Never the Sinner"", John Logan's 1988 play, was based on contemporary newspaper accounts of the case, and included an explicit portrayal of Leopold and Loeb's sexual relationship. Other works influenced by the case include Richard Wright's 1940 novel ""Native Son"", Tom Kalin's 1992 film ""Swoon"", Michael Haneke's 1997"
"films, such as ""Hangmen Also Die"", deal with spies during World War II. Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), ""The 39 Steps"" (1935), ""Sabotage"" (1937) and ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938). These often involved innocent civilians being caught up in international conspiracies or webs of saboteurs on the home front, as in ""Saboteur"" (1942). Some, however, dealt with professional spies as in Hitchcock's ""Secret Agent"" (1936), based on W. Somerset Maugham's ""Ashenden"" stories, or the Mr. Moto series, based on the books of John"
"Thirteen Days (book) Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis is Robert F. Kennedy's account of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The book was released in 1969, a year after his assassination. ""Thirteen Days"" describes the meetings held by the Executive Committee (ExComm), the team assembled by US President John F. Kennedy to handle the tense situation that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, from Florida. Robert Kennedy, who was the US Attorney General at the time, describes his brother John's leadership style during the"
"Essence of Decision Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so revolutionized the field of international relations. Allison originally published the book in 1971. In 1999, because of new materials available (including tape recordings of the U.S. government's proceedings), he rewrote the book with Philip Zelikow. The title is based on a speech"
"In 2002 it was remade as ""The Truth About Charlie"", directed by Jonathan Demme. In 1966 Donen made another Hitchcock-inspired film: ""Arabesque"", starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The film was written by Julian Mitchell and Stanley Price, with an uncredited rewrite by Peter Stone. Peck plays an American professor at Oxford University who is an expert in ancient hieroglyphics. He is approached by a Middle Eastern prime minister to investigate an organization that is attempting to assassinate him and uses hieroglyphic codes to communicate. The investigation leads Peck to one mystery after another, often involving the prime minister's mysterious"
"Torn Curtain Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who pretends to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany as part of a clandestine mission to obtain the solution of a formula and escape back to the United States. In 1965, Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), a US physicist and rocket scientist, is traveling to a conference in Copenhagen with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews). Armstrong"
"state of Texas."" Although influenced by European music traditions, Tiomkin was self-trained as a film composer. He scored many films of various genres, including historical dramas such as ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" (1950), ""The Fall of the Roman Empire"" (1964), and ""Great Catherine"" (1968); war movies such as ""The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell"" (1955), ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961), and ""Town Without Pity"" (1961); and suspense thrillers such as ""36 Hours"" (1965). Tiomkin also wrote scores for four of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense dramas: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""I Confess"" (1953), and ""Dial M for Murder"""
"""reflections"" of sidewalks, bridges, glass, and neon make the film a visual prototype of the nineteen-forties ""film noir"". For Alfred Hitchcock he wrote a number of his best psycho-dramas and received his final Academy Award nomination for ""Notorious"". He also worked without credit on Hitchcock's next two films, ""The Paradine Case"" (1947) and ""Rope"" (1948). ""Spellbound"", the first time Hitchcock worked with Hecht, is notable for being one of the first Hollywood movies to deal seriously with the subject of psychoanalysis. In 1947, he teamed up with Charles Lederer, and co-wrote three films: ""Her Husband's Affairs"", ""Kiss of Death"", and"
"says she is the man's wife, but the man has never seen her before. The play was later adapted three times as television films: ""Honeymoon With a Stranger"" (ABC, 1969), ""One of My Wives Is Missing"" (ABC, 1976) and ""Vanishing Act"" (CBS, 1986). It had previously been broadly adapted (without attribution) as the 1958 Associated British-Pathé feature ""Chase a Crooked Shadow"". Hitchcock had long desired to turn J. M. Barrie's 1920 play ""Mary Rose"" into a film. In 1964, after working together on ""Marnie"", Hitchcock asked Jay Presson Allen to adapt the play into a screenplay. Hitchcock would later tell"
"was effectively stuck alone in his office during the crisis without the type of support Kennedy had. Essence of Decision Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so revolutionized the field of international relations. Allison originally published the book in 1971. In 1999, because of new materials available (including tape recordings of the"
"an item or goal the protagonist is pursuing, one that otherwise has no narrative value; in ""The 39 Steps"", the MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock released two spy thrillers in 1936. ""Sabotage"" was loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel, ""The Secret Agent"" (1907), about a woman who discovers that her husband is a terrorist, and ""Secret Agent"", based on two stories in """" (1928) by W. Somerset Maugham. Hitchcock's next major success was ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938), ""one of the greatest train movies from the genre's golden era"", according to Philip French, in which Miss Froy"
"crisis as involved, but not controlling. Robert Kennedy viewed the military leaders on the council sympathetically, and recognized that their lifelong concentration on war was difficult to set aside. The book was used as the basis for the 1974 television play ""The Missiles of October"". In 2000, the theatrical film ""Thirteen Days"" was produced using the same title, but based on an entirely different book, ""The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis"" by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow. That book contained some information that Kennedy was not able to reveal because it was classified at"
"Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis"", by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow. It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's ""The Missiles of October"", which was based on Kennedy's book. The 2000 film contains some newly declassified information not available to the earlier production, but takes greater dramatic license, particularly in its choice of O'Donnell as protagonist. In October 1962, U-2 aerial surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing intermediate-range ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and"
"time, has been written about extensively using descriptions like ""dreamlike,"" ""ultraweird,"" ""dark,"" and ""oddball."" Red curtains also show up in key scenes, specifically in Dorothy's apartment, which have since become a Lynch trademark. The film has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"" (1960) because of its stark treatment of psychotic evil. The premise of both films is curiosity, leading to an investigation that draws the lead characters into a hidden, voyeuristic underworld of crime. The film's thematic framework hearkens back to Poe, James, and early gothic fiction, as well as films such as ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943) and ""The"
"not like her very much, but as well as the fade-out music to ""The 39 Steps"", he also used an orchestrated version of her song ""May I Have The Next Romance With You"" in the ballroom sequence of his film ""Young and Innocent"". ""The 39 Steps"" is the second film (after the silent film """") in a line of Hitchcock films based upon an innocent man being forced on the run, including ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959). The film contains a common Hitchcockian trope of a MacGuffin (a plot device which is vital to the story, but irrelevant"