Arabesque

Titolo originale: Arabesque
Regia: Stanley Donen |
Anno: 1966
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Thriller Commedia Mistero Azione
Tag: london, england | spy | professor | body double | political assassination | political intrigue  | hieroglyph | cipher | spy thriller | woman spy |
Cast: Gregory Peck | Sophia Loren | Alan Badel | Kieron Moore | Carl Duering | John Merivale | Duncan Lamont | George Coulouris | Ernest Clark | Harold Kasket | Windsor Davies | Jimmy Gardner | Larry Taylor | Harry Locke | Michael Bilton | Jill Goldston | James Payne |

David Pollock è un professore americano di filologia che riceve l'incarico di decifrare un geroglifico da parte di un magnate del petrolio di un paese arabo. Solo successivamente scopre che qualcuno ha deciso di farlo fuori, per ragioni che neppure lui capisce bene.

Approfondimenti

A sequence involving eye drops being dropped into an eye was donated by Stanley Donen to the Johns H [...] D
An interesting note is that this movie is the first in the career of stunt man, Vic Armstrong who is [...] D
Carl Duering is dubbed. D
The assassination attempt on the PM is dated June 18th, 1965. D
The part of David Pollock was originally written for Cary Grant. When Gregory Peck had trouble getti [...] D
Gregory Peck found the stunts particularly difficult because of an old leg injury due to horseback r [...] D
This film is a follow-up of sorts to its director Stanley Donen's 1963 classic thriller Charade. Ara [...] D
Last feature of John Merivale. D
In Charade (1963), which is also directed by Stanley Donen, Audrey Hepburn's innocent female charact [...] D
The Rolls Royce Phantom IV was one of only eighteen ever made. It had previously belonged to Prince [...] D
The "Pierre Marton" who is part-credited with the screenplay is, in fact, Peter Stone, who had scrip [...] D
The road tax disc for Sophia Loren's red Mercedes has a MAR 66 expiry date. When they discover the m [...] D
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, "arabesque" is a design based in flowers, leaves and [...] D
The brief images of motorway and other highway signs that appear after Pollock and Yasmin have depar [...] D
As many critics noted (not always approvingly), Stanley Donen filmed this thriller in an uncharacter [...] D
During filming Gregory Peck gave a surprisingly frank interview on the declining state of his career [...] D
The sequence on the railway viaduct was filmed on the Crumlin Viaduct in South Wales between the clo [...] D

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Errori

After the man has been drowned in the fish tank, there are several shots of the actors with the tank [...] D
After Mustafa's body has been all thrown to the fish tank, in next scene his legs are still outside [...] D
Sloan says he was with the 42nd Highland Fusiliers. The 42nd is in fact the Black Watch and no one f [...] D
The hieroglyphic script in the code is mislabeled as "Hittite" by the main character. Hieroglyphs su [...] D
In the final chase scene the helicopter continues to fly past and around the characters on the bridg [...] D
The interior of the Rolls Royce at the beginning changes between shots. D
In the opening sequence, when the fake doctor examines professor Ragheeb, he applies the ophthalmolo [...] D
In the aquarium scene, Mustafa is shot with a revolver fitted with a silencer. Silencers do not work [...] D
Sloane says that he was formerly with the 42nd Highland Fusiliers Regiment. The 42nd Regiment was kn [...] D
The Arab character Beshraavi mispronounces the name Mustafa. An Arab educated in English would still [...] D
In final scenes, Gregory Peck clung to a paddle stuck in lake's bottom, and his boat swam out of a c [...] D
When Peck/Loren are escaping from a helicopter, the filming crew is clear visible on the right side [...] D
When Mustafa is drowned in the fish tank, he is shown all the way in the tank floating face down, th [...] D
Near the beginning of the movie when Pollock is in the limo with the Prime Minister, the glass parti [...] D
During most of the dash to the airport to prevent the assassination, it is pouring with rain out of [...] D
There is no reference to the movie's title, "Arabesque". The references are all to the original book [...] D
During the scene with the helicopter on the viaduct, the river in the valley below (the Ebbw) is a v [...] D
The chase scene through the London Zoo takes place at night. However the insert shots of various ani [...] D

Frase

Yasmin Azir: Yussef is not my boyfriend. I loathe [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Webster sold out to Nazim. David Pol [...] D
David Pollock: Follow that car! Taxi Driver: All [...] D
David Pollock: For generations the Pollocks have d [...] D
Yasmin Azir: The candy! You are brilliant! David [...] D
Yasmin Azir: You've got to listen to me! David Po [...] D
Yasmin Azir: $30,000 in exchange for your old age [...] D
Yasmin Azir: [At the races, both dressed up posh] [...] D
Yasmin Azir: The message is much to important for [...] D
Yasmin Azir: It's not safe for you to be out on th [...] D
Journalist: [Prime Minister has arrived, weather i [...] D
David Pollock: No hanky-panky, Mr. Beshraavi. D
Yasmin Azir: You are brilliant! David Pollock: Th [...] D
David Pollock: I'll meet you in Knightsbridge at t [...] D
Yasmin Azir: How come my recurring dream never end [...] D
Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, very good of you to reonsi [...] D
Beshraavi: Extraordinary sensation. Perhaps it was [...] D
Yasmin Azir: This is like a recurring dream I used [...] D
Beshraavi: Must you mismanage everything? D
Yasmin Azir: That really is extraordinary. Jealous [...] D
David Pollock: If I could find my head, I'd go get [...] D
Beshraavi: Your brokers gossip like old Arab women [...] D
Beauchamp: He certainly was strange, even for an A [...] D
David Pollock: As long as you needed someone to si [...] D
David Pollock: Mrs. Ragheeb, I know this is a terr [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Are you burning it? David Pollock: T [...] D
David Pollock: I have a vivid imagination... I mus [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Professor, what did you do with the c [...] D
David Pollock: Look, everyone's got problems, incl [...] D
Yasmin Azir: [Meeting Pollock for the first time] [...] D
David Pollock: Here, above the monster Ammit sits, [...] D
David Pollock: Very well sir, where would you like [...] D
Beshraavi: [Offering Pollock a small platter of dr [...] D
David Pollock: This isn't your house. This is my h [...] D
David Pollock: I couldn't let you die without hear [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Oh, I am exhausted. Beshraavi: Of co [...] D
Beshraavi: Your shower must have been quite - stim [...] D
David Pollock: [Giving instructions to the driver [...] D
David Pollock: What is there about you that makes [...] D
David Pollock: Miss Azir, come down here and I'll [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Why don't you tell them where the cip [...] D
Beshraavi: Oh - and if I don't hear from you by no [...] D
David Pollock: Our life expectancy may be nil; but [...] D
David Pollock: Do I have your solemn pledge that y [...] D
Yasmin Azir: [Addressing a uniformed Queen's Guard [...] D
David Pollock: Those stairs must lead somewhere. [...] D
David Pollock: Here we are again, taking a bath to [...] D
Yasmin Azir: The police think you killed Webster. [...] D
Beshraavi: Before you came home, I received word t [...] D
Beshraavi: Your shower's still running. Yasmin Az [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Oh, don't stop. It feels divine. D
Beshraavi: You mustn't mind Hassan, Mr. Pollock. [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Oh, no! He's found it. David Pollock [...] D
Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: I'm only checki [...] D
Hassan Jena: Water remains our most serious proble [...] D
Beshraavi: You must have been very convincing. Ya [...] D
David Pollock: Now, then, Miss Azir, I wonder if y [...] D
David Pollock: There's nothing like a little kidna [...] D
Beshraavi: People who lock doors generally have th [...] D
Beshraavi: Those slippers are absolutely beautiful [...] D
Yussef Kasim: Skip the college talk, Teach. To the [...] D
Yasmin Azir: [At a construction site - after they' [...] D
Beshraavi: What do you suppose happened to Mustafa [...] D
Webster: That cipher, *where is it*? David Polloc [...] D
Beshraavi: Roll over, my love. D
David Pollock: ...and dear Miss Azir. You know, fo [...] D
David Pollock: Somehow I get the idea you've seen [...] D
Yasmin Azir: Then, you believe me? David Pollock: [...] D
David Pollock: In this cynical old world, you have [...] D
David Pollock: You're not with the authorities and [...] D
David Pollock: Let us through! That man's about to [...] D
David Pollock: I don't met many people who are dre [...] D
Yasmin Azir: What do you see? David Pollock: Gand [...] D
David Pollock: The fact is that there are very few [...] D
Hassan Jena: Mr. Pollock, what has happened? Davi [...] D
Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: May I have a wo [...] D
Yussef Kasim: Ain't it a gas about my promotion? D

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