Topkapi 1964 Full Movie

Topkapi Full Movie

Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. Next, she cases the Topkapı, 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.

Plot Details

Harper and Lipp then hire small-time hustler Arthur Simon Simpson (Peter Ustinov) to drive a car into Turkey to transport hidden explosives and firearms for use in the burglary. Simpson, unknowing of Harper’s and Lipp’s plans, is arrested at the border when Turkish Customs find the firearms. Because Simpson has no information for Turkish police, they conclude that the weapons are to be used in an assassination. Turkish Major Tufan decides to use Simpson to spy on Harper and Lipp for the police.

Harper’s Plan

Harper improvises a new plan in which they will give the still-oblivious police the slip and steal the dagger without using their weapons. Then they’ll “surrender” to the police, claiming to have found explosives in their car. Just before they leave, Simpson discards his last note, and then leaves with the others.

The Heist

That evening, Harper, Simpson, and Giulio steal the dagger and leave a replica in its place. Unnoticed by the thieves, a bird flies through the window they entered and is trapped inside the room when the window is closed. The gang delivers the dagger to Joseph (Joe Dassin), proprietor of the traveling fair display, who will smuggle it out of the country.

Unexpected Twist

When word of the Topkapı alarm reaches the police, Major Tufan confronts the thieves, displaying Simpson’s last note that links them to the theft. Tufan tells them all that he knows why they were in Turkey. “A little bird told me,” he says.

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