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Topkapi
starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn
directed by: Jules Dassin

Used Price: $1.95
Collectible Price: $14.95

Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304005989
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304005989
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 26, 1996
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 1964
Sales Rank: 18551

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Director Jules Dassin (Night and the City, The Naked City) fashioned this breezy and intricate 1964 thriller with a sly comic bent, and it enjoyed international popularity and became an influence for other high-toned European caper films. Peter Ustinov (Spartacus, Death on the Nile) won an Academy Award for his performance as a hapless driver, clueless to the plans of his cohorts, two jewel thieves who plan to steal a priceless dagger from the Topkapi museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Maximilian Schell (Deep Impact, Judgment at Nuremburg) and Melina Mercouri (The Victors, The Gypsy and the Gentleman) play the jet-setting thieves, who choose a motley band of amateurs instead of pros in order to throw off the authorities. But when Ustinov is apprehended by the cops, he agrees to act as a spy in order to thwart the robbery. Eventually, Ustinov must choose between saving his own hide and remaining loyal to the seductive Mercouri as the machinations of the robbery become ever more complex. Sleek and entertaining, Topkapi is filled with intrigue and thrills at every turn. --Robert Lane

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A fun caper
Topkapi is a caper movie, a group of disparate internationals pull off a robbery in the famous Topkapi palace in Turkey. An enjoyable couple of hours entertainment.

Rating:

- Another Crime Comedy
Topkapi is the former harem of the Sultan of Turkey in Istanbul. There is a museum that contains rich jewels and many armed guards to protect the treasures. "Elizabeth Lipp" introduces us to the museum. Walter Harper agrees to steal the emerald encrusted dagger but will use amateurs who don't have records that will make them suspects to the police. An expert tells how a strain gauge can detect any solid body on the floor. But there is a way to defeat this. Next Elizabeth and Walter pay Arthur Simpson to drive a car across the border. What can be in that car? The secret police arrest Simpson and double him. [I didn't find it funny.] There are scenes of everyday life in Turkey. Next there are some comic scenes due to language difficulties.

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Rating:

- Excellent DVD !
This is an unforgetable masterpiece performed by the Greek actress Melina Mercouri. The story is amazing and funny. The landscapes and the music are magnificent. The rest of the actors are so good, in particular Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov. I have watched it once and once again. Don't miss it, really is a treasure as well as its name !!

Rating:

- Not funny
I bought this movie hoping to be entertained mostly by Ustinov's brand of humor, but I didn't laugh once throughout. The plot ain't actually bad, but this one might have been better off as full-on suspense, instead of the 60'ss-tinged whimsical adventure it's oriented as. Melina Mercouri plays the lecherous old bag well enough, but I would have preferred someone a little more pleasant to look at. I can't imagine wanting to view it again.

Rating:

- An irritating experience.
Obnoxious, cloying characters, ho-hum exposition and tedious set-ups abound in the early-60s caper which enjoys a grossly inflated reputation. The heist itself is good as far as those thing go, but has been improved upon in the decades since.

Melina Mercouri serves almost no purpose in the film except to be the supposed "mastermind" which means she wants some loot. He accomplice, Herr Schelling, also spends the film mugging for the camera with no apparent skill set. Ustinov, at times funny, is more often a bit overripe.

They did film the thing in Turkey. although I must say it doesn't look to be the most attractive country.

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