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TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make larceny laughable in Director Jules Dassin's cheerfully amoral comedy about a jewel caper in Istanbul...
Right. Police reasoned that the great jewel theft was the work of amateurs. The famed gems were obviously unfenceable. The thieves ignored displays containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of diamonds and other gems that could be readily disposed of. Thus, with a fair certainty that they were dealing with greenhorns, the detectives called in the FBI and went to work on their own underworld contacts...
TOPKAPI. A jewel theft in Istanbul is played mostly for laughs by Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. The Morgan Library has dug up a jewel: Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours. Considered the finest Dutch manuscript in existence, it was painted about 500 years ago for Catherine's wedding by an artist known only as the Arenberg Master. Its two volumes became separated and one was thought to be the complete work until last year, when the library discovered the second half in a private European collection. His exquisitely executed miniatures, 157 in all, depict saintly themes with delightful rusticity: the Holy Family supping by a cozy fireplace...
TOPKAPI. A jewel theft in Istanbul is played mostly for laughs by Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...