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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nympholucrosmaragdomania | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Still, it's fun to watch the mercurial Mercouri play a nympholucrosmaragdomaniac who has similar and excessive reactions to men, money and emeralds. And it's even more fun to watch Ustinov, a semi-Egyptian sphink who asks unseemly riddles ("Wanna buy some feelthy peectures?"), make like a male Mata Hari and look like a two-ton dip of coffee ice cream wearing baggy tweeds. When Ustinov is onscreen, Topkapi is top chop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nympholucrosmaragdomania | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...corrupts a trim Belgian violinist, Romy Schneider. Vince Edwards meets Rosanna Schiaffino. Eli Wallach, as a tough sergeant, sweats out an air raid abed with Jeanne Moreau. Hamilton pairs off with Elke Sommer, a free-living German girl whose parents approve of her enterprise. Peppard finds respite with Melina Mercouri, a black market wheeler-dealer. None can compare to the girl next door, of course, but war brings all manner of hardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up in Arms for Peace | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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