TOPKAPI
"TOPKAPI" (1964)
SYNOPSIS: "Beautiful thief Elizabeth Lipp and criminal genius Walter Harper put together a plan to steal an emerald-encrusted dagger from Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. As part of their crew, they hire small-time hustler Arthur Simon Simpson to act as their fall guy. When the Turkish secret police capture Simpson at the border, they persuade him to spy on his partners in crime, mistakenly believing that they're Communist agents plotting an assassination."
STARRING: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Jules Dassin, Robert Morley and Gilles Segal.
SCREENPLAY: Monja Danischewsky; Based on The Light of Day - 1962 novel by Eric Ambler.
DIRECTOR: Jules Dassin
AWARDS & HONORS:
It won one (1) Academy Award for:
"Best Actor in a Supporting Role" (Peter Ustinov)
It was nominated for seven (7) other awards, from various entities, and won three (3) of them.
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