Arabesque

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Based on the novel The cipher by Gordon Cotler.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, Carl Duering, John Merivale, Duncan Lamont, George Coulouris, Ernest Clark, Harold Kasket.
A romantic thriller about an Oxford professor who is hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message and befriends his exotic companion.
DVD; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 2.0 mono; dual layer; NTSC format, region 1.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Good fun submitted by ssands on June 26, 2015, 3:50pm This was super fun! Action, romance, academics!

Ethnic casting submitted by willow on July 21, 2016, 9:45pm The New York Times film review summed up as "About 10 minutes after "Arabesque" gets under way, you'll lose track of its plot completely, and that's as it should be," due to the copious London scenery and dramatic intrigue involving scheming Arabs and mysterious codes. Italian actress and sex symbol Sophia Loren plays love interest "Yasmin Azir," who at one point is shown wearing only a towel while playing footsie in the bath with Gregory Peck, English actor Larry Taylor plays henchman "Mustapha," and Irish Kieron Moore (known for playing Vronsky in Anna Karenina opposite Vivien Leigh) plays "Yussef Kassim."

While the plot is very convoluted and somewhat like “Charade,” Peck and Loren are lots of fun.