Topkapi (1964)

Director: Jules Dassin
Writers: Monja Danischewsky (screenplay), Eric Ambler (based on the novel "The Light of Day")
Stars: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell

Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.

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