Arabesque

Gregory Peck stars as David Pollack, a visiting professor of ancient languages at the University of Oxford, whose academic quietude is upended when he’s pulled into a conspiracy surrounding a prominent Middle Eastern politician, a shipping magnate named Beshraavi (Alan Badel), and his uncommonly gorgeous and mysterious girlfriend Yasmin Azir (Sophia Loren, decked out in Dior and 20 different pairs of shoes), who may or may not be on Pollack’s side…. Originally meant as a Charade follow-up for Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, Arabesque is something like The Family Plot by way of Richard Lester: a deliriously mod comic-thriller (lensed in vibrant Technicolor by the great Christopher Challis) that follows Peck and Loren zipping around London to Henry Mancini’s exotica-tinged score, and remains one of the finest—if manic—examples of Donen’s unmatched knack for tightly choreographed filmmaking. New 4K restoration courtesy of Universal Studios. 

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