- The Casbah is presented as a lawless native quarter - an exotic warren where a European jewel thief can vanish among the locals - and the film's principal Algerian, Inspector Slimane, is a soft-spoken schemer who flatters, lies, and baits lovers into the trap he has promised to spring.
Algiers (1938)
film · 1938 film directed by John Cromwell
- Directors
- John Cromwell, Walter Wanger, James M. Cain
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Distributor
- RKO
- Genre
- romance film, drama film
- Cast
- Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Lockhart, Joseph Calleia, Leonid Kinskey
- Production notes
- Remake of the French film Pepe le Moko (1937), starring Jean Gabin
