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...laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar and replace the case...
...Dangerous to Know was a film version of Edgar Wallace's On the Spot, which Wong had played on Broadway. She's the "hostess," i.e. mistress, of a gangster (Akim Tamiroff) with potent political connections. While he does all the heavy acting, she stands by, stoic and steaming, as, essentially, a housekeeper in her own house. She hasn't much more to do in the 1939 Island of Lost Men, where the strong man is J. Carrol Naish as the Oriental plantation boss Gregory Prin. She's a nightclub singer ("China Lily - Songstress of the Orient") and, again...
Died. Akim Tamiroff, 72, versatile character actor with tragicomic phiz and Volga-rich voice; in Palm Springs, Calif. Trained at the Moscow Art Theater, Tamiroff accompanied its repertory troupe on a tour of the U.S. in 1923 and stayed behind to act on Broadway. In 1932 he moved to Hollywood to begin a long film career that spanned more than 60 films. Although he never lost his thick Russian accent, Tamiroff plausibly played characters of nearly every nationality and won two Academy Award nominations for supporting actor-as the sinister Chinese warlord in The General Died at Dawn...
Marco the Magnificent looks great on paper. It has a big budget, seven famous names (Anthony Quinn, Horst Bucholz, Omar Sharif, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Gregoire Asian), and a hero who was one of history's great adventurers: Marco Polo. On film, unfortunately, it looks terrible...
...Lollobrigida, the outrageously accomplished predator of Monsignor Cupid, ensnares the staid nephew (Jean Sorel) of a churchman attending the Vatican Council in Rome. As a hotelkeeper who offers practically unlimited amenities, Gina tricks the gullible monsignor (Akim Tamiroff) into acting as her go-between, unwittingly goading the stalwart young innocent to her bed. How she does it is revealed by Director Mauro Bolognini with style, polish and cinematic fluidity...