Topkapi

Having spoken to the camera in the opening, footloose globe-trotting jewel thief Elizabeth (Melina Mercouri, wife of director Jules Dassin) begins to plan the job, with lover William (Maximillian Schell), early in Topkapi, a very loose adaptation of Eric Ambler's novel Light Of Day.

Dockside English hustler Simpson (Peter Ustinov) at work in Istanbul, Despo Diamantidou his sidekick, not aware he's being sized up for a jewel heist team by Walter (Maximillian Schell) and Elizabeth (Melina Mercouri, wife of the director Jules Dassin), still early in Topkapi, 1964.

An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum in Topkapi (1964) starring Peter Ustinov and Maximilian Schell.