a5c7b9f00b Mild mannered American David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford, has been hired by Middle Eastern shipping magnate, Nejim Beshraavi, to decode a hieroglyphic written cipher, of which he has the original. What Beshraavi is unaware of is that David only took the joba favor to Middle Eastern Prime Minister Hassan Jena, who David admires. David just met Jena for the first time on his clandestine visit to London prior to his official visit to sign a business treaty with the British government in two days&#39; time. Jena tells him that what Beshraavi is asking him to do involves some plot orchestrated by Beshraavi, a countryman of Jena&#39;s, against his government. For Jena&#39;s security, David is not to disclose to anyone that he is doing this job for Jena, that he has even met Jena, or that Jena is already in London. This job also entails some personal risk to David&#39;s lifeBeshraavi is not averse to killing to achieve whatever his goal. As David progresses on his task, he is approached by Yasmin Azir, the beautiful owner of the house where Beshraavi is staying and where David is doing the work, she who is Beshraavi&#39;s lover. She provides information which suggests that his task is more dangerous than it appears on the surface,there are more players beyond Beshraavi interested in the cipher and its message, they who will also killneeded to achieve their goal. However, David, who initially takes her information at face value, begins to have doubts if she is truly working in his best interest. Professor David Pollock is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi, who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi&#39;s mistress, Yasmin Azir is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can&#39;t decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister. ***SPOILERS*** Gregory Peckvisiting American Oxford language professor David Pollock has his hand full chasing that fast filly and mystery woman Yasmin Azir, Sophia Loren,all over London and it&#39;s surroundings. ThatPollock is being chased by Arab billionaire oil man Bashraavi&#39;s, Alan Badel, goons who need Prof. Pollock to decipher an urgent massage,in ancient Hittite hieroglyphs, that can determine the course of the future of all of mankind. Things are doubly difficult for Peck in the film in that he&#39;s recovering from falling off a horse and can barley walk much run in all his action scenes that must have made things a living hell for him in the film.<br/><br/>It&#39;s oil rich unnamed Middle Eastern nation&#39;s Prime Minister Yossef Kasim&#39;s, Kieron Moor, plan to exclusively use US &amp; UK oil tankers to carry his oil reserves that has Bashraavi want to have him knocked off in that it&#39;s cutting into his mega billions of dollars in oil profits! Pollock after being kidnapped, while jogging, by PM Kasin&#39;s men and told how important the ancient massage is later is hired by Bashraavi to decode it. That without Bashraavi knowing that he&#39;s really working for his enemy Prime Minister Yosseff Kasim. It&#39;s when the hot blooded Arabian princess Yasmin , who&#39;s mansion Bashraavi is staying at while in London, shows up unexpectedly that Pollock forgets what his job is and focuses all of his attention on her! That with him not quite knowing on who&#39;s side Yasmin is on his or her house-mate the oily and murderous Arab oil magnet Bashraavi!<br/><br/>With Pollock knowing that his life depends on him not decoding the secret message and that once he does decode it it&#39;s curtains, in Bashraavi finding out what it says, for him all he can do is run, together with Yasmin, for his life until the calvary or Scotland Yard comes to his rescue. It&#39;s during that time on the run Pollock is framed by one of Bashraavi&#39;s goons Slone, John Meravile,in a murder at the Ascot Race Track making him a fugitive from the lawwellfrom Bashraavi! Still hooked on the beautiful Yasmin Pollock isn&#39;t quite sure, with all the lies she&#39;ll told him, just whom she&#39;s working for and is even willing, if she&#39;s working for Bashraavi, to end up dying in her arms even if she&#39;s the one who does him in.<br/><br/>****SPOILERS**** it&#39;s to Pollock&#39;s great relief that Yasmin in fact turns out to be a secret agent or spy for Prime Minister Kasim! But by then it&#39;s almost too late for him with the Prime Minster getting blasted by one of his bodyguards after Pollock &amp; Yasmin save him from an assassins bullet when he landed at the London airport! But the big surprise comes later when we realize that there&#39;s a lot more that&#39;s going on in the movie that meets the eye. Which leads to the explosive climax on the bridge to nowhere that turned out to be Bashraavi and his band of goons final resting place! This has got to be one of the most beautifully photographed movies ever made. Stanley Donen really knows how to use the camera, shooting through chandeliers, using double mirrors for endless reflections, using ordinary objects to highlight the extraordinary–this movie is so wonderfully cinematic that the lack of a serious plot is almost negligible. Not to mention the presence of Gregory Peck, the beautiful Sophia Lorenwellthe Henry Mancini score and the titles by Maurice Binder only add to the icing on the cake! &quot;Pierre Marton&quot; (yeah, we all know it&#39;s Peter Stone)&#39;s script is sparklingly quotable and provides great fun and great entertainment–just don&#39;t think too hard about the plot when you&#39;re watching this. &quot;Arabesque&quot; should set the standard in cinematic beauty and it&#39;s a shame that this movie isn&#39;t more widely shown or known about. Just what happened to that song &quot;We&#39;ve Loved Before&quot; that was composed for this film?
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