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Arabesque
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6.3When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Cast
- Gregory Peck as Prof. David Pollock
- Sophia Loren as Yasmin Azir
- Alan Badel as Nejim Beshraavi
- Kieron Moore as Yussef Kasim
- Carl Duering as Prime Minister Hassan Jena
- John Merivale as Maj. Sylvester Pennington Sloane
Themes
- london, england
- spy
- professor
- body double
- political assassination
- political intrigue
- hieroglyph
- cipher
- spy thriller
- woman spy
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Stanley Donen
- Screenplay by
- Julian Mitchell Stanley Price Peter Stone
- Based on
- The Cipher , by Alex Gordon
- Produced by
- Stanley Donen
- Starring
- Gregory Peck Sophia Loren Alan Badel Kieron Moore
- Cinematography
- Christopher Challis
- Edited by
- Frederick Wilson
- Music by
- Henry Mancini
- Production company
- Stanley Donen Enterprises
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- May 5, 1966 ( 1966-05-05 ) (New York City) May 24, 1966 ( 1966-05-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.8 million
- Box office
- $5 million (U.S. and Canada rentals )
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 405893
- Image
- Loren Peck 1966.jpg
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- publication date
- 1966-01-01
- title
- Arabesque
- capital cost
- 4800000
- box office
- 5000000
- Commons category
- Arabesque (1966 film)
- review score
- 74%
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Arabesque is a 1966 American spy comedy thriller film produced and directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone is based on the 1961 novel The Cipher by Alex Gordon (pseudonym of Gordon Cotler [fr]). The film, along with Donen's immediately prior film Charade (1963), is usually described as being "Hitchcockian". It features as a protagonist an innocent and ordinary man thrust into dangerous and extraordinary situations. It was the last film of that genre which Donen would make.
Arabesque was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision and was distributed by Universal Pictures.