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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.
The Man from Cairo: Directed by Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton. 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
Jul 7, 2023 · 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 A...
- 82 min
- 548.3K
- The Sprocket Vault
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
Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification. George Raft. ... Mike Canelli. Gianna Maria Canale. ... Lorraine Beloyan. Massimo Serato.
"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 $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert.
"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 $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert.
