Casbah.

Duration: 94 min.

Year Published: 1948

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: 24Mar48 L1910, renewed 6Oct75 R639295 Renewal claimant: National Telefilm Associates, Inc Original author: Universal Pictures Company, Inc

Description: To avoid capture by the police, a jewel thief hides in the Casbah section of Algiers until a woman lures him to his death. A modernized musical version of the French picture, Pepe Le Moko, which was subsequently issued in English under the title Algiers.

Complete Record: CASBAH. Marston Pictures, Inc., Released by Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., c1948. 94 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel, "Pepe le Moko," by Detective Ashelbe [pseud. of Henri La Barthe]. Summary: To avoid capture by the police, a jewel thief hides in the Casbah section of Algiers until a woman lures him to his death. A modernized musical version of the French picture, Pepe Le Moko, which was subsequently issued in English under the title Algiers. Credits: Producer, Nat G. Goldstone; director, John Berry; screenplay, L. Bus-Fekete, Arnold Manoff; music, Harold Arlen; music director, Walter Scharf; film editor, Edward Curtiss. Cast: Yvonne DeCarlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Marta Toren, Hugo Haas. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc., and Marston Pictures, Inc.; 24Mar48; LP1910.