Arabesque (1966)
- Directed by
- Stanley Donen
- Genre
- comedy film, spy film, comedy thriller
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 184 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An American professor of hieroglyphics gets tangled in a dangerous international conspiracy involving a Middle Eastern political leader. He must decipher a coded message and team up with a mysterious woman while staying ahead of spies and assassins.
suspensefulwhimsicalelegantfast-pacedlighthearteddeceptiveglamorousintriguing
What happens
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). 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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