Arabesque | |
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![]() Theatrical release poster by Robert McGinnis | |
Directed by | Stanley Donen |
Written by | Julian Mitchell Stanley Price Peter Stone (as Pierre Marton) |
Based on | The Cipher 1961 novel by Alex Gordon[1] |
Produced by | Stanley Donen |
Starring | Gregory Peck Sophia Loren |
Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
Edited by | Frederick Wilson |
Music by | Henry Mancini |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.6 million[2] |
Box office | $5.8 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[3] |
Arabesque is a 1966 American comedy thriller spy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, written by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone based on The Cipher, a 1961 novel by Alex Gordon (pseudonym of Gordon Cotler). The film, along with Donen's immediately prior film Charade (1963), is usually described as being "Hitchcockian", as it features as a protagonist an innocent and ordinary man thrust into dangerous and extraordinary situations. It was the last film of that genre which Donen would make.[4]
Arabesque was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision and was distributed by Universal Pictures.