Topkapi (1964)
Directed by Jules Dassin
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.
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And unlike most of the classic robbery movies-Jules Dassin's "Rififi" and "Topkapi" or even the "Topkapi"-influenced sequences of the first "Mission: Impossible" movie -the elaborate thievery around which the movie revolves is not just icing, it's anticlimax.
Not even the surprises are quite surprises here, since Ocean’s Eight recycles a formula now very familiar from not only these films but the 1960s legacy that spawned them (cross-reference Topkapi and TV’s Mission: Impossible ) and the modern TV knockoffs ( Leverage , Hustle ).
The great American director Jules Dassin ( Topkapi ; Rififi ) was a genius at putting audiences on the edge of their seats during a heist sequence.