''The Man from Cairo'' ( it, Dramma nella Kasbah/Avventura ad Algeri) is a 1953 British/Italian/American international coproduction film noir starring George Raft, who plays a man who is mistaken for a detective and sent to find lost

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gold in Algiers, despite the film's title. The film was Raft's last with top billing and the last of three films that he made for

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.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013 p 156 It was also the final feature film of director Ray Enright and the American film debut of

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Plot

The French government investigates the location of some bullion stolen during the war. Tourist Mike Canelli, an ex-serviceman who served in Algeria during the war, is mistaken for an American agent assisting the French.

Cast

*George Raft as Mike Canelli * Gianna Maria Canale as Lorraine Belogne *Massimo Serato as Basil Constantine *

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as Sgt. Emile Touchard *

as Yvonne Le Beaux *Alfredo Varelli as General Dumont, also known as Professor Crespi *Leon Lenoir as Capt. Akhim Bey *Mino Doro as Major Le Blanc, assumed name of Emile Moreau *Angelo Dessy as Pockmark

Production

The film was produced by Bernard Luber, who had just made ''

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'' with Raft. It was shot on location in Algeria and Italy and was made for $155,000, with $80,000 in deferrals.

Reception

In a contemporary review for ''

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'', critic Howard Thompson found the film to be formulaic but with "a sleazy, authentic-looking backdrop." Thompson wrote: "Lethargically directed by Ray H. Enright, the action soon levels off to a dull, unsurprising trot. ... Mr. Raft is Mr. Raft, still the same competent, brisk and unimaginative performer. ... e rest go through their assigned motions. It takes all of them a long time."

References

External links

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