Arabesque (film)
| Arabesque | |
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Theatrical release poster by Robert McGinnis | |
| Directed by | Stanley Donen |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | The Cipher by Alex Gordon |
| Produced by | Stanley Donen |
| Starring | |
| 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 | $4.8 million |
| Box office | $5.8 million (US and Canada rentals) |
Arabesque is a 1966 American spy comedy thriller film produced and directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone is based on the 1961 novel The Cipher 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.
Arabesque was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision and was distributed by Universal Pictures.