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Topkapi

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 23^rd Jun 2019, 13:15 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Thu 16^th Dec 2021, 06:05 on BBC Two HD

International jewel thief Elizabeth Lipp recruits her ex-lover Walter Harper to train a motley crew of characters to steal the famous emerald-encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud from the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Show less

Contributors

Director:: Jules Dassin
Elizabeth Lipp:: Melina Mercouri
Walter Harper:: Maximilian Schell
Arthur Simon Simpson:: Peter Ustinov
Cedric Page:: Robert Morley
Hans Fisher:: Jess Hahn
Gerven:: Akim Tamiroff
Producer:: Jules Dassin
Writer:: Monja Danischewsky
Writer:: Eric Ambler

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Source: BBC Online

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