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- BFI identifier58485
- Date1966 (Copyright)
1967-09-09 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisRomantic comedy thriller. David Pollock, an American professor of ancient scripts at Oxford University, is abducted while out jogging, and finds himself trapped in a London house, where he is compelled to decipher a strip of heiroglyphics by a sinister shipping magnate. Soon he becomes embroiled in a criminal plot involving a Middle Eastern prime minister. Pollock is by turns aided and hindered by the glamorous and mysterious Yasmin, apparently the magnate's mistress but (Pollock soon learns) happy to work against him. (Synopsis)
- Work historyLocation note: Pollock walks across Canterbury Quad, St John's College, Oxford. The car stops by him at Magpie Lane, Oxford. Beshraavi's house is in Carlton Gardens, London. The scrapyard is in South Street, Isleworth. The final chase begins at Tyringham Hall, near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire and ends at the Crumlin Viaduct, Caerphilly, Wales. (All these locations are UK).
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- CreditsDirected by: Stanley Donen
©: Stanley Donen Enterprises
Universal presents.. a Universal release: Universal
view all - CastGregory Peck (Professor David Pollock)
Sophia Loren (Yasmin Azir)
Alan Badel (Nejim Beshraavi)
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Title
Arabesque (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/2AB6-15F0-A67C-AC5E-33F0-SCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-58485
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-58485
Medium and small pressbooks held.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - Single sheet landscape , card window matte attached - PD-17251
Design: production - Single sheet landscape attached to card window matte - PD-17252
Design: production - Single sheet landscape with card window matte attached - PD-17253
Design: production - Single sheet landscape with card window matte attached - PD-17254
Design: production - Single sheet landscape attached to backing board - PD-17255
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