Istanbul (film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Pevney |
| Produced by | Albert J. Cohen |
| Written by | Barbara Gray Richard Alan Simmons |
| Screenplay by | Seton I. Miller |
| Story by | Seton I. Miller |
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Errol Flynn Cornell Borchers |
| Music by | Joseph Gershenson |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Edited by | Sherman Todd |
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Universal Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | 943,679 admissions (France) |
Istanbul is a 1957 American CinemaScope Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney starring Errol Flynn and Cornell Borchers. It is a remake of the film Singapore with the location of the action moved to Turkey. The plot involves an American pilot who becomes mixed up with various criminal activities in Istanbul.
For the first time in five years, pilot Jim Brennan (Errol Flynn) flies to Istanbul, Turkey, but is immediately brought to the office of customs Inspector R. P. Nural (John Bentley) who suspects him of diamond-smuggling. Jim goes to the hotel where he stayed previously, but his old room has Americans Charlie (Leif Erickson) and Marge Boyle (Peggy Knudsen) staying there.
At the café, Jim sits at his regular table and recalls the last time he was there, sharing a drink with German tourist Stephanie Bauer (Cornell Borchers) a beauty with whom he falls in love. She knows he has to fly for a living, and encourages him to accept a quick job flying businessmen to Cairo. On his return, an old friend, merchant Aziz Rakim (Vladimir Sokoloff) offers Jim a bracelet to give to Stephanie but a hidden compartment contains diamonds, which Jim stashes in his ceiling fan.
When he proposes to Stephanie, he also gives her the bracelet. She accepts his proposal, but back at his room, the couple encounter Paul Renkov (Werner Klemperer) who is looking for the diamonds. The next night, Paul follows Jim and with several henchmen, beat him up. Mr. Darius (Martin Benson), their leader, demands the diamonds. The police find Jim, and at headquarters, Nural tells him that Aziz was murdered likely due to his role in a shipment of stolen diamonds smuggled in a bracelet. Jim denies involvement in the theft and later asks Stephanie to come with him that night to Paris.
At her hotel room, Darius' men accost Stephanie and steal the bracelet. Jim finds Nural in his room, and reveals that he has impounded his aircraft and plans to keep him in custody until Jim leaves the country. Knowing he cannot retrieve the diamonds, Jim and Nural go to Stephanie's hotel, but the building is in flames. Jim tries to save his fiance, but the blaze forces him to retreat.
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