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* DontAsk[=/=]YouDoNotWantToKnow: When Yasmin and Pollock find themselves in a sticky situation:
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: When Yasmin and Pollock find themselves in a sticky situation:
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
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* IWasNeverHere: A variation - when Pollock recognizes the Prime Minister, and says he didn't know they were in England, the Prime Minister responds, "You're right. I am not here."
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* IWasNeverHere: A variation - when Pollock recognizes the Prime Minister, and says he didn't know they were in England, the Prime Minister responds, "You're right. I am not here."" [[spoiler:As it turns out, that's not even the Prime Minister, but an imposter]].
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* EyeScream: In the opening scene, Sloane, posing as an eye doctor, murders Professor Ragheeb with poisonous eyedrops.
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* DoubleTake: Pollock has one when he first meets Yasmin.
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* IWasNeverHere: A variation - when Pollock recognizes the Prime Minister, and says he didn't know they were in England, the Prime Minister responds, "You're right. I am not here."
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* ZipMeUp: When Yasmin and Pollock first meet, she asks him to zip up her dress.
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* InvisibleWriting: Pollock comes across this at one point, and lights a match to expose it, which Yasmin is puzzled by:
-->'''Pollock''': Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?\\
'''Yasmin''': [[SarcasmMode I flunked the physical]].\\
'''Pollock''': Should have tried my troop. We'd have waived it.
-->'''Pollock''': Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?\\
'''Yasmin''': [[SarcasmMode I flunked the physical]].\\
'''Pollock''': Should have tried my troop. We'd have waived it.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: When Yasmin and Pollock find themselves in a sticky situation:
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
-->'''Yasmin''': This is like a recurring dream I used to have.\\
'''Pollock''': How did it end?\\
'''Yasmin''': Don't ask!
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* FollowThatCar: After Prof. Pollock says this, the taxi driver immediately answers:"All my life I have waited for somebody to say that!"
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* FollowThatCar: After Prof. Pollock says this, the taxi driver immediately answers:"All answers: "All my life I have waited for somebody to say that!"
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* OneWordTitle: '''Arabesque'''.
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* OneWordTitle: '''Arabesque'''.'''Arabesque'''.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on Creator/AlexGordon's book, ''The Cipher''.
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A 1966 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/StanleyDonen that has a story of international intrigue that involves a professor (Creator/GregoryPeck), an Arab prime minister (Creator/CarlDuering), a businessman (Creator/AlanBadel) and a beautiful spy (Creator/SophieLoren) and hieroglyphics.
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A 1966 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/StanleyDonen that has a story of international intrigue that involves a professor (Creator/GregoryPeck), an Arab prime minister (Creator/CarlDuering), a businessman (Creator/AlanBadel) and a beautiful spy (Creator/SophieLoren) (Creator/SophiaLoren) and hieroglyphics.
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A 1966 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/StanleyDonen that has a story of international intrigue that involves a professor (Creator/GregoryPeck), an Arab prime minister (Creator/CarlDuering), a businessman (Creator/AlanBadel) and a beautiful spy (Creator/SophieLoren) and hieroglyphics.
The movie also stars Creator/KieronMoore, Creator/JohnMerivale, Creator/DuncanLamont, Creator/GeorgeCoulouris, Creator/ErnestClark, and Creator/HaroldKasket.
It was released on May 5, 1966 in New York, May 24, 1966 in the rest of the US, and July 28, 1966 in the UK.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ActionDressRip: Prof. David Pollock (Peck) tears open the side seam of Yasmin Azir's (Loren) light skirt so she can ride a horse.
* FollowThatCar: After Prof. Pollock says this, the taxi driver immediately answers:"All my life I have waited for somebody to say that!"
* HelicopterBlender: Completely averted, when Pollock defeats the BigBad, by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the airlift to fall.
* HellishCopter: Pollock drops a steel ladder into the rotors of the BigBad's helicopter, sending it crashing into a river.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The climax shows Pollock killing the villains with a ''ladder'' - by jamming it down through the girders under a bridge into the rotor of their helicopter as they fly below trying to shoot him.
* OneWordTitle: '''Arabesque'''.
The movie also stars Creator/KieronMoore, Creator/JohnMerivale, Creator/DuncanLamont, Creator/GeorgeCoulouris, Creator/ErnestClark, and Creator/HaroldKasket.
It was released on May 5, 1966 in New York, May 24, 1966 in the rest of the US, and July 28, 1966 in the UK.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ActionDressRip: Prof. David Pollock (Peck) tears open the side seam of Yasmin Azir's (Loren) light skirt so she can ride a horse.
* FollowThatCar: After Prof. Pollock says this, the taxi driver immediately answers:"All my life I have waited for somebody to say that!"
* HelicopterBlender: Completely averted, when Pollock defeats the BigBad, by dropping a ladder on his helicopter, completely shattering the rotor, and causing the airlift to fall.
* HellishCopter: Pollock drops a steel ladder into the rotors of the BigBad's helicopter, sending it crashing into a river.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The climax shows Pollock killing the villains with a ''ladder'' - by jamming it down through the girders under a bridge into the rotor of their helicopter as they fly below trying to shoot him.
* OneWordTitle: '''Arabesque'''.
