Rating: NR
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 12/11/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 119 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM
After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic
Rififi, director
Jules Dassin topped them all with his own spoof,
Topkapi. It's a rather disreputable crew that teams for the elaborate jewel theft masterminded by
Maximillian Schell. Sexy
Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin) is probably the best of the batch: the others are faffling
Robert Morley, unreliable
Gilles Segal and
Jess Hahn. Bumbling
Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar for his performance) is duped into helping the thieves, and soon finds himself uneasily straddling both sides of the law. As in
Rififi, the theft itself (taking place in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace museum) is played out in near-complete silence. We won't tell you how the crooks are foiled; just be advised that money flies out the door when something else flies in the window.
Topkapi was based on
The Light of Day, a somewhat more somber novel by
Eric Ambler.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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