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(1966)Directed by Stanley Donen105 minThriller, Comedy, Mystery, Action

“Ultra Mod. Ultra Mad. Ultra Mystery.”

Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) teaches hieroglyphics at Oxford, and he is pulled into a plot against a Middle Eastern prime minister when he is asked to read a coded message. Stanley Donen sends him through one pursuit after another, with Nejim Beshraavi (Alan Badel) always close behind. Yasmin Azir (Sophia Loren), Beshraavi's lover, offers Pollock her help, and he has to decide whether to trust her.