Tuesday 2 August 2005

Arabesque (1966)

Totally forgettable fluff directed by Stanley Donen who has far better films to his credit.  Gregory Peck, slightly more playful than usual, plays an arabic scholar based in England who is abducted to decipher a phony Hittite message which actually reads "Goosey Goosey Gander..."; his foil and love interest is the very glamourous Sophia Loren.  Together they stop an assassination.  All very exciting while it lasts but with little to linger in the memory apart from some very dated dialogue and the classic exchange: "Follow that car"; Cabby: "I've waited all my life for someone to say that".  Now where have we heard that before?

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