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Topkapi videos
Topkapi: Official Clip - A Little Bird Told Me
Topkapi: Official Clip - Stealing the Dagger
Topkapi: Official Clip - The Floor-Mounted Alarm
Topkapi: Official Clip - A Nymphomaniac
Topkapi: Official Clip - Sofa Bet
Topkapi: Official Clip - The Heist Begins
Topkapi: Official Clip - Wrestling Match
Topkapi: Official Clip - Crossing the Roof
Topkapi: Official Clip - It Can Be Done!
Topkapi: Official Clip - A Clever Deduction
Topkapi: Official Clip - Interrogation
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Movie Info
Beautiful thief Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) and criminal genius Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell) put together a plan to steal an emerald-encrusted dagger from Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. As part of their crew, they hire small-time hustler Arthur Simon Simpson (Peter Ustinov) to act as their fall guy. When the Turkish secret police capture Simpson at the border, they persuade him to spy on his partners in crime, mistakenly believing that they're Communist agents plotting an assassination.
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Genre: Mystery & thriller, Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Jules Dassin
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Producer: Jules Dassin
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: United Artists
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Production Co: Filmways Pictures
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Critic Reviews for Topkapi
Audience Reviews for Topkapi
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An enormously fun heist movie. Ustinov is perfectly disheveled and those final 30 minute or so are unbelievably tense.
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A bunch of weird, unintelligible, Europeans attempt a painfully boring heist. The end.
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A group of thieves recruit a bumbling fool in their quest to steal a dagger from a museum. In the tradition of <i>Ocean's Eleven</i> this is a decently plotted heist film. There are a few plot twists that give the script a clever feel, but it's pretty basic. The best part of the film is Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Peter Ustinov who makes us both pity and sympathize with Arthur Simpson. Sometimes he's too dumb to know better, and other times he's just clever enough to make him likable. I didn't like the film's style; the opening credit sequence reminded me of an Adam West Batman fight, and Melina Mercoun's performance as Elizabeth Lipp quickly annoyed me; she's the drunk girl in the bar who can go home with anyone else but me. Overall, <i>Topkapi</i> is light and sometimes fun but innocuous.
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Jules Dassin is the master of the hiest genre in "Topkapi". I found the film rather entertaining particularly the great hiest sequence which is reminescent to Dassin's early picture "Raffi". The cast is pretty good. You got Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley and Maximilian Schell who reminded me of Daniel Day-Lewis.
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