Topkapi 03/29/25

A heist caper classic just got a new lease on life — after languishing in so-so encodings for 50 years, Jules Dassin and Melina Mercouri’s colorful escapist thriller dazzles once more. Peter Ustinov, Maximillian Schell, Robert Morley and Akim Tamiroff help Melina knock off the Topkapi museum in Istanbul, in a breathtaking midnight raid involving an insane acrobatic trick. Manos Hadjidakis’ wonderful music score puts the right feeling of fun and excitement on the lavish enterprise, filmed entirely in Turkey. The new video remaster is more like a revival, a resurrection. On Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
03/29/25