Arabesque (film)

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Arabesque
Directed by	Stanley Donen
Produced by	Stanley Donen Denis Holt
Written by	Julian Mitchell Stanley Price Peter Stone
Starring	Gregory Peck Sophia Loren Alan Badel John Merivale Harold Kasket
Music by	Henry Mancini
Cinematography	Christopher Challis
Editing by	Frederick Wilson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	May 5, 1966 July 28
Running time	105 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Arabesque is a 1966 thriller starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The movie is based on Gordon Cotler's novel The Cypher and directed by Stanley Donen, who also directed Charade, Indiscreet, Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Saturn 3.

Contents 1 Plot 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Plot

Professor David Pollock (Peck) is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics at Oxford University. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi (Alan Badel), who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi's mistress, Yasmin Azir (Loren) is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can't decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.

[edit] See also

• Crumlin, Caerphilly, the location at which the railway bridge action scene was filmed on the historic Viaduct, which was being dismantled at the time.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Arabesque at the Internet Movie Database