Topkapi
3.5
Comedy
Crime
Adventure
1964
119 min
NR
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
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"Topkapi is madcap heist comedy directed by Jules Dassin. The polar opposite Dassin’s other heist film, Rififi, this is a weird Technicolor travelogue into Turkey. It is brimming with its mid-60s pedigree, from its detached interludes to its psychedelic style. It’s a lot of fun though, full of energy and surprises.
Though it isn’t famous, Topkapi is a very influential movie. It feels like much more of a precursor to modern Ocean’s 11 films than the actual original 1960s Ocean’s 11 does and the first Mission Impossible movie directly lifted it’s famous heist scene out of this movie.
4 out of 5 stars"
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