Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
Topkapi is of 1 hour(s) and 59 minute(s). It is Produced By: Filmways Pictures, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was released on 1964-09-02. It has the tagline: Join us - we'll cut you in on the theft of the century! It has an average vote of 6.446 on TMDB.
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