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How to Steal a Million
Why this pick
Matches Topkapi’s glossy European setting, flirtatious sophistication, and elaborate art-theft playfulness, with a polished romantic-comic rhythm rather than hard-edged crime.
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MOVIE1964 1h 59m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. Next she cases the Topkapi, fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I. Leaving Turkey, she recruits her ex-lover, Swiss master-criminal Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell), to plan a theft of the dagger. They engage Cedric Page (Robert Morley), master of all things mechanical; Giulio, "The Human Fly" (Gilles Ségal), a mute acrobat; and the burly Hans (Jess Hahn), who will provide the muscle needed for the job.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Melina Mercouri
Elizabeth Lipp
Robert Morley
Cedric Page
Titos Vandis
Harback
Akim Tamiroff
Gerven the Cook
Peter Ustinov
Arthur Simon Simpson
Maximilian Schell
Walter Harper
Jess Hahn
Hans