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Cairo
Cairo is a 1963 American crime film starring George Sanders, Richard Johnson, and Walter Rilla. Directed by Wolf Rilla (Walter's son) and written by Joan LaCour Scott, it was released on August 21, 1963, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a nearly scene-for-scene remake of John Huston's 1950 film noir, The Asphalt Jungle.
Plot
Former British soldier and schemer Major Pickering flies into Cairo on a phony passport. He has had years in a German prison to develop a foolproof plan to rob King Tut's jewels from the Cairo Museum.
More details
| author | Joan Scott |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Egypt |
| director | Wolf Rilla |
| editor | Bernard Gribble |
| genre | crime |
| keywords | arrest belly dancer belly dancing bloodshed british soldier cairo cairo museum coffee shop come out con artist dancing girl downward spiral even financial backer getaway driver jail kill king tut last chance married river safe-cracker safe-cracking surround tutankhamun wound |
| musicBy | Kenneth V. Jones |
| producer | Lawrence Bachmann Ronald Kinnoch |
| productionCompany | Lawrence P. Bachmann Productions |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | film noir |