Now all the gang needs is a patsy to throw the police off the scent. Director of Photography Henri Alekan (Roman Holiday the 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast Wings of Desire) truly makes Mercouri look like she’s making sweet love to the camera!
As she leans against the glass, “a strange feeling comes over me,” she moans, almost orgasmically. When Elizabeth literally beckons us viewers to follow her, we’re intrigued before we start! But our gal isn’t really greedy of all the museum’s treasures, Elizabeth is only interested in a particular golden dagger adorned with “the four greatest emeralds the world has ever known,” bringing new meaning to the phrase “the wearing of the green.” For the record, Elizabeth seems especially keen on the rectangular emerald. Many moons ago, before the museum became a tourist attraction, the joint was the home of Sultan Mahmud I and his many wives. Elizabeth explains that we’re in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Seraglio’s Topkapi Palace Museum. Donald Sinden as British Gen.The first character we meet is our dazzling leading lady (Mercouri), who calls herself Elizabeth Lipp because it’s “convenient.” She introduces herself to us viewers in a most kaleidoscopic fashion, her voice and attitude smokier than a five-alarm fire.Plot Īn international arms dealer, at a NATO meeting to sell weaponry, becomes entangled with a female journalist from the Washington Post whose worldview is very different to his. It was originally entitled Heaven Save Us from Our Friends. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Maxsted.
The film was shot at Pinewood Studios, with location shooting around Brussels.
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