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The Man from Cairo is a 1953 British/Italian/American international coproduction film noir starring George Raft. Released in Italy as Italian: Dramma nella Kasbah/Avventura ad Algeri, it also went under the alternative English titles Cairo Incident, Adventure in Algiers and Secrets of the Casbah.
With George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano. An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
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- Crime, Drama
- Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton
- 1953-11-27
A $100 million gold cache, hidden in the North African desert during World War II, is at the center of the crime mystery plot. George Raft, mistaken for an American detective working for French ...
- 82 min
- 534.2K
- The Sprocket Vault
Overview. "The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of ...
At a brief stop in Cairo, Stark runs into Mike Canelli, an American friend headed for Algiers, and mentions that he is searching for a thumbless man. In Algiers, Mike is stopped and taken to Capt. Akhim Bey, the Prefect of Police, who tells Mike about the robbery and says that he was picked up only because he served in Algiers in 1942.
- Ray Enright, Ugo Velona
- George Raft
A film noir about a fake American agent who is hired by the French to find a missing gold in Algeria. He faces double crosses, murders and beautiful women in this B movie with Bogart-like style.
HE TOOK A DESPERATE CHANCE FOR A FORTUNE IN GOLD…and a Beautiful Woman! “The Man from Cairo”, a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he ...
