Arabesque (film)

Arabesque
Theatrical release poster by Robert McGinnis
Directed byStanley Donen
Written byJulian Mitchell
Stanley Price
Peter Stone
(as Pierre Marton)
Based onThe Cipher
1961 novel
by Alex Gordon[1]
Produced byStanley Donen
StarringGregory Peck
Sophia Loren
CinematographyChristopher Challis
Edited byFrederick Wilson
Music byHenry Mancini
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • May 5, 1966 (1966-05-05) (New York)
  • May 24, 1966 (1966-05-24) (U.S.)
  • July 28, 1966 (1966-07-28) (UK)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ Arabesque at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ Alexander Walker (1974) Hollywood, England, Stein and Day. p.341
  3. ^ Staff (January 4, 1967) "Big Rental Pictures of 1966", Variety p.8
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference tcmart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).