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User Reviews. This 1951 Bogart vehicle, produced by the great man himself, and directed by the estimable Curtis Bernhardt, is a slow-moving rehash of some of Bogart's better known films, going back to Casablanca. This one's set in 1925 Syria, with the Trenchcoated One working both sides against the middle. He's a gun runner selling arms to the ...
Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a mixed review, writing, "I'd always read that it was a half-baked attempt to rekindle some of the ingredients that made Casablanca such a success, and that's true. The setting is Damascus in 1926, when the French Army is battling Syrian insurgents...
With Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane. A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.
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- Action, Drama, Film-Noir
- Curtis Bernhardt
- 1951-06-13
Reviews 25% Audience Score 500+ Ratings American Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is selling guns to Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens), whose Syrian rebels are battling occupying French troops. Hoping to...
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- Curtis Bernhardt
- Adventure
- Humphrey Bogart
5 ★★★★½ ratings (1%) 7 ★★★★★ ratings (1%) ★★★★★. Follow Follow our industry partners for film news and the latest on new releases. View Profiles. Popular reviews. More. Review by Slig001 ★★★. Beyond Casablanca....goes the tagline, foretelling a film that will riff heavily on the earlier classic.
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- Curtis Bernhardt
A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.
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Film; Reviews; Dec 31, 1950 11:00pm PT Sirocco This melodrama goes back to 1925 and the war between French occupation troops and the Syrians in Damascus. Visual presentation interestingly depicts ...