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

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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