Topkapi (1964)


Melina Mercouri         Elizabeth Lipp
Maximilian Schell       Walter Harper
Peter Ustinov           Arthur Simon Simpson
Robert Morley           Cedric Page
Gilles Segal            Giulio
Jess Hahn               Hans Fischer
Akim Tamiroff           Geven--Drunken Cook
Titos Vandis            Harback
Ege Ernart              Major Tufan
Senih Orkan             Shadow
Ahmet Danyal Topatan    Shadow
Joseph Dassin           Josef
Despo Diamantidou (II)  Voula
Amy Dalby               Nanny

Directed by:            Jules Dassin
Produced by:            Jules Dassin, John Calley, Roger Dwyre


A group of jet-setting, professional thieves plan a burglary of a famed jewelled dagger on display 
at a Turkish museum.

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A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves 
plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms smuggling, gets 
involved, and under pressure the con-man rises to heights he'd never dreamed of.