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...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...
...taken ingredients not unlike these and distilled his own aromatic blend of 160-proof suspense-sometimes with the smoky overtones of his early A Coffin for Dimitrios, sometimes with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while...
...TOPKAPI. Director Jules Dassin (Rififi) lightens larceny with laughter as Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov head a crook's tour of exotic Istanbul in pursuit of four fabulous emeralds...
...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...