TOPKAPI (1964) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Maximillian Schell, Peter Ustinov,
Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Gilles Ségal, Akim Tamiroff
A crazy caper about a band of thieves trying to steal some valuable emeralds from an Istanbul museum. The template for this sort of thing is Dassin's French thriller "Rififi" from 1955. This one's a riff on that, but it's more of a lark. Ustinov won an Oscar playing the gang's least daring member.
