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TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a suspenseful jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
Obviously, Director Jules Dassin isn't. In Topkapi, adapted from a tidy thriller (The Light of Day) by Eric Ambler, he has pulled off the niftiest caper seen on screen since the jewel job he engineered in Rififi. As in Rififi, unfortunately, the rest of the film seems a bit Dassingenuous. The director's jokes are often too laboriously explained, and the camera's adoration of Melina Mercouri, the great love of Dassin's life, is sometimes boring and always embarrassing...
Cutting the Caper. Rhadamés and his fellow "ins" live like royalty, tooling around Switzerland, France and Spain in a fleet of Cadillacs, Jaguars and Mercedeses, accompanied by scores of servants, bodyguards and hangers-on. Rhadamés, who looks after the investments in France, cuts the caper in splendor on a $5,000,000 estate near Evreux, with his wife and 15 servants; his three stallions and 20 champion brood mares are already the talk of French racing. In Madrid, Ramfis, his mother and a few other family members occupy three $50,000 apartments in a fashionable section...
...cases were tried at the same time, but it was the Pickrick caper that drew the greatest interest...