Foxhole in Cairo
5.2 /10 1 Votes
Director John Llewellyn Moxey Duration Language English | 5/10 IMDb Genre War, Drama Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1960 (1960) Writer Leonard Mosley (novel), Leonard Mosley (screenplay), Donald Taylor Music director Douglas Gamley, Wolfram Rohrig, Ken Jones Screenplay Leonard Mosley, Donald Taylor Cast James Robertson Justice (Capt. Robertson), Adrian Hoven (John Eppler), Niall MacGinnis (Radek), Peter van Eyck (Count Almaszy), Robert Urquhart (Major Wilson), Robert Urquhart (Sandy)Similar movies The Most Dangerous Woman Alive , Captain America: The First Avenger , Snake Island , Sexual Chronicles of a French Family , Class of 1984 , Django Unchained Tagline The Greatest Spy Story of the Desert War! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley itself based upon the real-life Operation Salaam. It starred James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar. Future star Michael Caine makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles.
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Synopsis
During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort.
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Reception
A 1961 New York Times review described the film as "a routine British-made espionage yarn" calling the plot "slack and predictable", while praising the professional performance of James Robertson Justice.
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