Topkapi, Jules Dassin, 1964

The daddy of all heist films, in which "Swiss master criminal" Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley and Melina Mercouri – who was the muse for Dassin's Oscar-winning Never On Sunday, and later his wife – have terrific fun trying to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the hunchback Sultan Mahmud I from the Topkapi palace museum. Mission: Impossible, the Pink Panther, and Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen all owe their jokey breeziness to Dassin and his merry band, although few have bettered them. Great score, too, from Manos Hatzidakis.

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