The Man From Cairo

  • Drama
  • Crime
9/3/1953
81
NR

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Just before the Nazis invaded France, its government secreted their billions in gold reserves to North Africa and divided it up into shipments to keep it safe. One such shipment - worth some $100,000,000 went missing and despite years of searching, nobody has ever found it. Well now its the turn of Canelli (George Raft) to turn his hand at detective work. Thats not by choice, though. Hes just a tourist having an holiday, but when he is the victim of a mistaken identity that puts him square in the middle of an internecine international plot, hes in it up to his neck and the only way he can stay safe it to find the loot himself. Raft is in his element here, and there are plenty of crooked characters and espionage elements to the plot, but the...

    March 12, 2025

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