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Foxhole in Cairo

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Foxhole in Cairo
Original British quad poster
Directed byJohn Llewellyn Moxey
Screenplay byLeonard Mosley
Donald Taylor
Based onnovel The Cat and the Mice by Leonard Mosley
Produced bySteven Pallos
Donald Taylor
StarringJames Robertson Justice
Adrian Hoven
Fenella Fielding
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Music byDouglas Gamley
Ken Jones
Production
company
Omnia Films
Distributed byBritish Lion Film Corporation
Release date
  • 1960 (1960)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley itself based upon the real-life Operation Salaam.[1] It starred James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar.[2] Future star Michael Caine makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles.[3][4]

Synopsis

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During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort.

Cast

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Reception

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Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960.[5]

A 1961 New York Times review described the film as "a routine British-made espionage yarn" calling the plot "slack and predictable", while praising the professional performance of James Robertson Justice.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740629 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Foxhole in Cairo (1960)". Archived from the original on 28 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Foxhole in Cairo". 28 October 1960 – via www.imdb.com.
  4. ^ "Foxhole in Cairo (1960) - John Llewellyn Moxey - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  5. ^ Billings, Josh (15 December 1960). "It's Britain 1, 2, 3 again in the 1960 box office stakes". Kine Weekly. p. 9.
  6. ^ Thompson, Howard (16 February 1961). "Screen: Wartime Spying; Foxhole in Cairo' Is British Import". The New York Times.
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