Arabesque

In perhaps direct reference to Hitchcock’s Sabotage, 1936, shooting at the Regent’s Park Zoo aquarium in London, American scholar Pollock (Gregory Peck) and mysterious Yasmin (Sophia Loren) flee a goon (Larry Taylor) working for her power-mad sponsor, in Stanley Donen’s Arabesque, 1966.

Having turned down a proposition from an Arab magnate we know is inclined toward murder, American Oxford-visiting professor Pollock (Gregory Peck) gets grabbed by the Prime Minister (Carl Deuring) and ambassador (Harold Kasket) of the country in question, in Stanley Donen’s Arabesque, 1966.

Director Stanley Donen’s opening scene, John Merivale as Sloane greets George Coulouris as patient Ragheeb, with notable Hitchcockian qualities, in the follow-up to the director’s acknowledged Hitchcock homage Charade, 1963, from Arabesque, 1966, starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren.

Secretly working on behalf of a virtuous Arab government, American Egyptologist Pollock (Gregory Peck) meets Yasmin (Sophia Loren), mistress of sinister Beshraavi (Alan Badel), who’s hired him to decipher a hieroglyph he obtained through nefarious means, in Stanley Donen’s Arabesque, 1966.

Gregory Peck is the innocent professor pulled into espionage in Stanley Donen's follow-up to Charade, Arabesque (1966).