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Phaedra

film by Dassin [1962]
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  • Jules Dassin
    Jules Dassin
    / Blacklist and exile

    Dassin directed Mercouri again in Phaedra (1962), in which she starred as the wife of a shipping magnate who has an affair with her stepson (Anthony Perkins). She was also in Topkapi (1964), a classic caper flick (based on an Eric Ambler novel) about the theft of an emerald-studded dagger…

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    Dassin directed Mercouri again in Phaedra (1962), in which she starred as the wife of a shipping magnate who has an affair with her stepson (Anthony Perkins). She was also in Topkapi (1964), a classic caper flick (based on an Eric Ambler novel) about the theft of an emerald-studded dagger…

    Read More