An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum.An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum.An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum.
Ahmad Mazhar
- Kerim
- (as Ahmed Mazhar)
Kamal El-Shinnawi
- Ghattas
- (as Kamal El Shennawy)
Mona Saxena
- Bamba
- (as Mona)
Youssef Shabaan
- 2nd Officer
- (as Youssef Shaaban)
Mohamed Abdel Rahman
- 4th Officer
- (as Capt. Mohamed Abdel Rahman)
- Director
- Writers
- Joan Scott(originally as Joanne Court)
- W.R. Burnett
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaOnly English-language film of Faten Hamamah, who was, at the time, Egypt's most popular female film star. She may have hoped for an international career to rival that of her then husband, Omar Sharif, but none eventuated.
- GoofsAli returns to his flat and Amina is unexpectedly there. He lays down on a bed wearing a coat and tie. In a subsequent shot his coat and tie are gone. Then a shot or two later, he's wearing his coat and tie again, still laying on the bed.
- ConnectionsRemake of The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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A fairly decent remake of The Aspjalt Jungle
A fairly decent remake of The Asphalt Jungle - on its own terms.
The director Rilla stuck reasonably closely to John Huston's film script.
I would have given this 6, but the presence of George Sanders and Walter Rilla add a touch of much needed class.
Richard Johnson 'browning up' as an Arab is somewhat outré, though Johnson is slightly more convincing than Sterling Hayden in the original. The scene where Sanders is entranced by a belly dancing lady is also more believable than Sam Jaffe being entranced by a young woman jiving to juke box tunes in a small diner.
Worth watching as a curio and to compare it scene by scene to The Asphalt Jungle.
The director Rilla stuck reasonably closely to John Huston's film script.
I would have given this 6, but the presence of George Sanders and Walter Rilla add a touch of much needed class.
Richard Johnson 'browning up' as an Arab is somewhat outré, though Johnson is slightly more convincing than Sterling Hayden in the original. The scene where Sanders is entranced by a belly dancing lady is also more believable than Sam Jaffe being entranced by a young woman jiving to juke box tunes in a small diner.
Worth watching as a curio and to compare it scene by scene to The Asphalt Jungle.
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- britlektorcomenius
- Jan 26, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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