Casbah.

Duration: 94 min.

Genre: adventure

Year Published: 1948

Creator: John Berry

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Yvonne de Carlo, Tony Martin

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. Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah district of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne De Carlo) is infuriated when he flirts with Gaby (Märta Torén), a French visitor. Detective Slimane (Peter Lorre) is using her as the bait to lure him out of the town.

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.

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