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Cairo: Directed by Wolf Rilla. With George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamamah, John Meillon. An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum.
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- Crime, Drama
- Wolf Rilla
- 1963-01
Cairo is a 1963 American crime film starring George Sanders, Richard Johnson, and Walter Rilla. Directed by Wolf Rilla (Walter's son) and written by Joan LaCour Scott, it was released on August 21, 1963, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a nearly scene-for-scene remake of John Huston's 1950 film noir, The Asphalt Jungle.
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- W.S. Van Dyke
- 14
Cairo: Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. With Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen. Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- W.S. Van Dyke
- 1942-08-17
Upon his release from a German jail, Major Pickering goes to Egypt to rob the Cairo museum of ancient gems. Involved in the scheme are Nicodemus, a nightclub owner; Willy, an explosives expert; Ali, a drug addict in love with a dancer, Amina; and Kuchuk, a fence.
- Wolf Rilla, George Pollard, Simon Saleh
- George Sanders
Not long before Cairo's release, an Allied war conference in Cairo grabbed major headlines, and two days after its release, the United States invaded North Africa. The public may have been conditioned to equate the word "Cairo" with serious war matters, not a frivolous spy spoof.
Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on an idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies.
