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TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a suspenseful jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
...pulled off the niftiest caper seen on screen since the jewel job he engineered in Rififi. As in Rififi, unfortunately, the rest of the film seems a bit Dassingenuous. The director's jokes are often too laboriously explained, and the camera's adoration of Melina Mercouri, the great love of Dassin's life, is sometimes boring and always embarrassing...
Still, it's fun to watch the mercurial Mercouri play a nympholucrosmaragdomaniac who has similar and excessive reactions to men, money and emeralds. And it's even more fun to watch Ustinov, a semi-Egyptian sphink who asks unseemly riddles ("Wanna buy some feelthy peectures?"), make like a male Mata Hari and look like a two-ton dip of coffee ice cream wearing baggy tweeds. When Ustinov is onscreen, Topkapi is top chop...
...corrupts a trim Belgian violinist, Romy Schneider. Vince Edwards meets Rosanna Schiaffino. Eli Wallach, as a tough sergeant, sweats out an air raid abed with Jeanne Moreau. Hamilton pairs off with Elke Sommer, a free-living German girl whose parents approve of her enterprise. Peppard finds respite with Melina Mercouri, a black market wheeler-dealer. None can compare to the girl next door, of course, but war brings all manner of hardship...