Actors: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
My brother does not get cable, and thus subsists on over-the-air television (and stolen cable TV shows). While he's revealed that he will watch TMZ and other odious programming of this sort, he also gets a TV channel called This! that shows exclusively movies. We've dubbed This!'s programming '[Grandpop] movies' because it shows mostly films of the 60s through the 80s of medium to poor quality - thrillers, Westerns, courtroom dramas, etc; the sort of films our grandfather seemed to watch endlessly on AMC in our youth.
Topkapi seems like a film for my grandfather's generation - it's almost a full-length advertisement for Mediterranean cruises. It features exotic locales, exotic accents, an undercurrent of sexuality, and goofy farce, and it's all pretty kinda stupid and laborious at bottom. However, Topkapi is also a heist film, and while the rest of the movie is forgettable, the heist sequence is among the best I've seen, redeeming the entire affair.
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