The Man From Cairo

The Man From Cairo (1953)

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 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. People representing many nationalities and reasons are also seeking the gold. It boils down to a battle between Canelli and the original looter aboard a speeding train.

Date of release
1953-09-03
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Edoardo Anton, Ray Enright

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production

The film was produced by Bernard Luber, who had just made Loan Shark with Raft. It was shot on location in Algeria and Italy and was made for $155,000, with $80,000 in deferrals. Leading lady Gianna Maria Canale, a previous runner-up in the 1947 Miss Italy competition, had the distinction of the largest age gap between Raft and one of his leading ladies.

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