I don't think I'd get too excited about TOPAZ as a freeze-frame ending;
since far too many students of Hitchcock seem at present to agree this
"ending" was forced upon *very* limited footage by outside pressures.  It
was a case, I think, of having to freeze the frame rather than ending on
a miserable--but the only possible--shot./mp
 
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