Casbah (1948)The life, Loves and Adventures of a classic Casbah thief. Director:John Berry |
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Casbah (1948)The life, Loves and Adventures of a classic Casbah thief. Director:John Berry |
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| Yvonne De Carlo | ... |
Inez
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| Tony Martin | ... | ||
| 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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Katherine Dunham | ... |
Odette
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Herbert Rudley | ... |
Claude
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Gene Walker | ... |
Roland
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Curt Conway | ... |
Maurice
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Hans Schumm | ... |
Willem
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Barry Bernard | ... |
Max
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| Virginia Gregg | ... |
Madeline
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| Will Lee | ... |
Beggar
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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. Inez, his girl friend, is infuriated when Pepe flirts with Gaby, a French visitor, but Pepe tells her to mind her own business. Detective Slimane is trying to lure Pepe out of the Casbah so he can be jailed. Against Slimane's advice, Police Chief Louvain capture Pepe in a dragnet, but his followers free him. Inez realizes that Pepe has fallen in love with Gaby and intends to follow her to Europe. Slimane knows the same and uses her as the bait to lure Pepe out of the Casbah. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
I watched this years ago on TV with a friend who swore that was NOT Yvonne DeCarlo playing the spitfire Inez...I almost lost my mind! Yvonne is unintentionally hilarious in this campy musical remake of 1938's "Algiers", featuring big, bland Tony Martin as Pepe Le Moko (for those who don't know, Tony Martin was even more bland than Perry Como and Andy Williams, sort of a Dean Martin knock-off without any of Dino's naughty charm). Pepe is a jewel thief caught between two women, and he occasionally breaks out into song (not bad songs mind you, as they were written by the famous Harold Arlen). Still, viewers not familiar with the picture's background might think they've stumbled upon a musical version of "Casablanca". *1/2 from ****