Casbah
"Den of a thousand thieves ! Rendezvous for romance !"
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
Top Cast
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Yvonne De Carlo
Inez
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Tony Martin
Pepe Le Moko
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Peter Lorre
Slimane
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Märta Torén
Gaby
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Hugo Haas
Omar
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Thomas Gomez
Louvain
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Douglas Dick
Carlo
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Herbert Rudley
Claude
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Virginia Gregg
Madeline
Overview
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
Rating
5.9
/ 10
17 Reviews 1 Popular
1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Jul 9, 2022This is an odd film to watch, this one. Essentially it appears to be a post war vehicle for successful actor/crooner Tony Martin ("Pepe le Moko"), but somewhere along the line director John Berry loses his way with this hybrid of romantic musical - there are half a dozen numbers from Harold Arlen and Leo Robin, including the Oscar nominated "For Every Man There's a Woman" - mixed in with a lightweight crime-noir scenario fronted by policeman Peter Lorre ("Slimane"). The confusion isn't really helped by some indifferent writing and even a glamorous, sultry performance from Yvonne de Carlo ("Inez") fails to get the thing moving with any direction or impetus. Lorre is good, doing what he always did well - a sort of hot, sweaty, weasel in a suit - and the setting of the law-unto-itself Casbah in Algiers where his quarry is protected ought to have helped create a bit of menace, mystery at least, too - but, no, sorry - this is just an average film held up by some fine tunes.
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