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Topkapi
from MGM (Video & DVD)
starring Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn
directed by Jules Dassin

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dubbed
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• 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.

• 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... more info

• 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 !!

• 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.

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