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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Akim Tamiroff, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, Melina Mercouri, Gilles Ségal, Ege Ernart, Senih Orkan, Jess Hahn, Titos Vandis

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Heist, Crime Comedy, Caper story, Action, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Film adaptation

Topkapi (1964) is a heist film made by Filmways Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by the emigre American film director, Jules Dassin. The film is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (1962), adapted as a screenplay by Monja Danischewsky. The film stars Melina Mercouri (who later became Dassin's wife), Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Gilles Ségal and Akim Tamiroff. The music score was by Manos Hadjidakis, the cinematography by Henri Alekan and the costume design by Theoni V. Aldredge. The film opens with glamorous and... MORE

Topkapi (1964) is a heist film made by Filmways Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by the emigre American film director, Jules Dassin. The film is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (1962), adapted as a screenplay by Monja Danischewsky. The film stars Melina Mercouri (who later became Dassin's wife), Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Gilles Ségal and Akim Tamiroff. The music score was by Manos Hadjidakis, the cinematography by Henri Alekan and the costume design by Theoni V. Aldredge. The film opens with glamorous and avaricious Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) visiting Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapi Palace, and says enigmatically to herself that now she sees how "it" can be done. Next she cases the Topkapi, clearly fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I. Leaving Turkey, she recruits her ex-lover, Swiss master-criminal Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell), to plan the theft. Harper insists on working only with "amateurs"—individuals with no police record. They engage Cedric Page (Robert Morley), an eccentric British master of all things LESS