Cinema: Zombie

Zombie "If the dead were to come back, what would you do with them?"

#151;Alfred Hitchcock

You would call them Topaz. It would seem difficult to make a zombie from Leon Uris' tense bestseller, based on diplomatic crescendos leading up to the Cuban missile crisis. Yet Alfred Hitchcock has done so without any discernible effort, spiritlessly following the events to their evitable inconclusion.

A French spy, Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), is employed by American intelligence to venture into Cuba. He emerges with evidence of Russian rockets, but in the process abets...

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