Topkapi

Aroview: A classy comic-romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted ‘real time’ heist sequence (later ‘borrowed’ by Brian De Palma for his Mission Impossible remake). Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell and Robert Morley lead the cadre of jewel thieves, who plot to relieve a priceless dagger from a Constantinople museum.

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