The Prize

Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their Nobel Prizes. At first, the film concentrates on iconoclastic novelist Paul Newman, but he is temporarily shunted to the background when physics expert Edward G. Robinson is ...more

With the tone of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers having become darker in the 1960s (Psycho, The Birds), there was room for someone to try a lighter, funnier thriller in 1963. The Prize is not totally successful -- and sometimes it's a little too imitative of Hitchcock for comfort -- but on the whole, it's an enjoyable, if disposable, way to pass the time. True, it could easily be 20 minutes shorter; the nudist camp and bridge chase scenes echo the screenwriter's North by Northwest auction scenes ...more