with reference to the following communication from
        Murray Pomerance <[log in to unmask]>
 
> 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
 
 
        does anyone know offhand where discussions [by "hitchcock students" or
        by others] of the ending of TOPAZ may be found?
 
mike frank
 
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