The Man from Cairo (1953) Film Noir | George Raft
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- A $100 million gold cache, hidden in the North African desert during World War II, is at the center of the crime mystery plot. George Raft, mistaken for an American detective working for French Intelligence, is drawn into the hunt for the missing gold--and quickly finds himself a suspect in the strangulation murder of beautiful Irene Papas.
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Leon Lenoir, Alfredo Varelli, Mino Doro
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Great Comment by George Raft: "Most of my money, I spent on women, gambling and booze. The rest I spent foolishly".
Nothing like an old spy thriller. So many characters and twists in the first 20 minutes, it makes a dull life worth living.
It made my exciting life much more dull for 90 minutes.
What a classic spy Thriller. It's got it all. foreign land, secret messages, fortune telling, knives in the back, mickies and hot foreign dames.
and gold
Even today $100 million is real money. Imagine the worth in 1953! Cha-Ching! 💰💰🤑
Definitely my kinda movie. Has all the whistles and gongs. Love George Raft. I watch anything he's in. 😍
"I'm not going to sprout any wings, but I can live with myself." - great line
The soundtrack is brilliant. Different sounds and instruments. Always loved George❤
Other than it being too loud, inappropriate to the scenes, pedestrian, and uninspired, it was "brilliant". Also, it's too bad the costume budget was spent on cigarettes, and women's furs for frigid Algiers temperatures, so that George only had one suit to wear during the whole film.
@@residentalien7055 I thought it sounded like the score was lifted from a thriller rather than Noir. It didn't always match up with the scenes
There is excitement whenever a nightclub is introduced in a film noir/black and white movie.
I like George Raft very much. I like his acting style.He always seems to be in a good movie.
He was refused entry to the UK
because of his criminal connections.
@@noelhall945 So???
In fact, those "connections" were rather exaggerated. Raft happened to grow up in Hell's Kitchen, a notoriously rough neighbourhood; many childhood pals happened to be hoodlums.
If you liked older George Raft's acting style, you'll love wooden telephone posts.
@@aileen694 It is a known fact that George Raft was a made man in what is now the Luchese family. He was childhood friends with Meyer Lansky, Ben Siegel, and Harry Big Greenie Greenburg.
@@eamonwright7488 I googled the Lucchese and other NY mob families. What a crew!
Just curious, what is your "confirmed" source of Raft's "made man" status? Regardless, this does not diminish the man's creative energy, pure talent and past accomplishments, nor his exceptional public popularity.
George Raft was not only a competent actor he was an excellent dancer and a real veteran also a real ladies man. After his extensive acting career he became a movie producer heading a major studio. He appeared in movies from the 30s until the early 70s.
He was also a made man in LCN. He was childhood friends with Ben Siegel.
The precisely engineered kissing scenes crack me up. Don't blink or else you'll miss them.
As an antique dealer, I love to pause and examine the rooms - furniture, lamps, art . There was a hay-hook hanging
on a painting for some reason. And the exquisite wardrobes, of the women especially. Such elegance!
A great film I enjoyed it very much all films with George raft are great
My, how the definition of "Great" has suffered.
The acting of a bygone time. Love the music, interesting plot.
Wooden. I guess that was the the style.
GREAT. Straightforward and no punches pulled. Gorgeous leading lady. Thx for posting.
Nice film. Twists & turns. The main actress was beautiful
Irene Papas is so young here and what a beauty!
A good old movie and great acting thankyou ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great script as well 😊
Of late, I've discovered that I enjoy coffee even more than alcohol. Was never a big drinker anyway. It's really the company of good friends I enjoy more. Coffee really is a social lubricant. These old films depict for me, old man bars and cafes. While just a film set, the atmosphere of sad, small out of the way places is appealing. Arab coffee is said to be very good.
Arabica beans tend to have a smoother, sweeter taste, with flavor notes of chocolate and sugar. They often also have hints of fruits or berries.
@@UQRXD... Sounds amazing! I'll take one and give one to my friend @johnrudy9404 over there on the sidewalk table with the smart looking brunette 😊
Thanks so much for posting.
TSV, you did it again. Thanks for another good one.
I really liked the movie "Baby". Thanks for posting this great George Raft picture....
Enjoyed film…
It had it all... cheesy dialogue, predictable clichés, thinnest plot imaginable - but for schlock, it was decent enough... it had its charm. Definitely the type of movie you either throw popcorn at the screen or you're too busy hot and heavy with your date to be worried about things like story and entertainment value. I sat through the whole damn thing and didn't get too drunk.
Thank you for sharing!
Gianna Maria Canale was the lead in this movie! Well done.
Fabulous movie classic of the screen.thank you so much for sharing 🏁📽️🎥🎬🎞️🎭🏁
Mostly not believable, but still fun to watch. Some good dialog.
Excellent film with a fast tempo.
The nightclubs are no ordinary place in black and white movies. They are an institution.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for the movie! Film noir is my favourite genre, and this one has it all :)
Raft should have been as big as Bogie..He turned many iconic roles that went 2 Bogart..You know the rest.
He was a big star for many years perhaps 10 years 1931 to 1946. His dress style is still copied.
Judging from the credits, this is a “spaghetti noir.” Interesting.
Thank you 🤩🤩💖
As a kid in the 50's, I always enjoyed George Raft's movies, ( some were shown as "B" or second films!)
You always knew that you would get "your money's worth", even if the "A" film wasn't that great! R.I.P. George!
A or B movie, for me George Raft's work is always a pleasure.
The budget for this movie must have been huge, all that traveling to exotic locations!☺️
Absolutely. Filming in a London studio is quite exorbitant. 😂
Stock footage: abundant, cheap, filler.
@@Cracktaculus I know, it’s all the Warner backlot. But you gotta admit, it has great surreal feel to it.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb I like his FBI flicks and Loanshark.
Imagine the logistics, all the way from one end of the lot to the other…
I Don't Know, But the way the Camera awkwardly shifts to Raft makes me think he is reading "Cue cards", "Great" Wooden Actor that he Is.
Superb! A great watch.
It's fun watching a film noir movie, which reads like a pulp fiction novel written for post WWII entertainment.
I wonder if they even did any major shooting abroad, using only stock footage of cities outdoors. Rest are all studio lots and sets.
The studio was in Rome which counts as abroad, don't know where the brief airport scenes were filmed.
Better than I expected
That was excellent. Sure you could nit-pick direction/cinematography/etc., but so much to like here. Sound track (as mentioned by others), principals, time travel. Thank you for posting.
Love George Raft
That's a great line @58:36 "For something like this, Mike, I need a man like you to help me."
Great film!
FOUR FINGERS : Technically, we ALL have four fingers on BOTH hands, with opposable thumbs. {lol}
The forgotten soundtrack artists. All music in this film, and many others of time, perfectly composed and matched to scene by seen; not an overnight task!...and...they used to say that when George Raft walked into a room, paint started peeling of the walls, flowers wilted in vases, milk turned sour, innocent bystanders lost the will to live and the world waited...that was the measure of George Raft, who simply and expertly, looked his parts.
Firebrand55....🤣🤣🤣
Firebrand55. "and the world waited" 😁 Yes, and I would have waited... forever
In this overlong turkey, George's "expert" acting style consisted of long closeups where he didn't change his expression one bit.
I like Raft' playing much. He looked like Onassis, incidentally. A real chef !!
George Raft certainly knew how to wear his fedora! 👍
But if only he could act, then we talkin.
@@higgsmerino3925 Raft, in 1937, was the third-highest-paid star in Hollywood (behind Gary Cooper and Warner Baxter), earning $202,666. He made well over 80 movies in his career, and launched Bogart's career by turning down roles in Casablanca, High Sierra, and The Maltese Falcon. For a professional dancer, I figure he was a fairly successful actor.
David Rice and higgsmerino,
Yes, his was a Very successful career! I've always found Raft's acting great! True, he had a very dry style of speaking, no dramatic histrionics. But with his eyes and voice, he said lots! Just more subtle than most.
One of the best!!
That man with only four fingers on his right hand sure gets around a lot in all kinds of movies 🍿. 🤔🤔🤔😅😅😅
I don’t get all the criticism about George Raft’s acting 🎭 being more cardboard than usual. That’s what appeals to me the most about George Raft’s performances. I find him quite droll and I love ❤️ that about his performances. For me it’s a welcome 🙏🏻 break from all of the terrible reality of what’s happening in our world 🌎 today. 🌎🌎🌎🌎
He could have phoned this in.
He made "wooden acting" into the finest hardwood in this one.
@@residentalien7055 To be fair to Raft, this picture was undeserving of any decent acting: it's a bottom-of-the-barrel effort in all respects.
He always came across as a Bogart knock off, if you ask me. But I don't mind at all.
@@jayt-mac2074 Raft was a successful professional years before Bogie came on the scene.
Thank you.
God’s love never quits.
Really an example of how stiff and passionless the films could be in the 50's. But the story held together well and would have been pretty gripping for the audiences of the time.
Those you call ''stiff and passionless the films could be in the 50's'' would likely call you gauche and hysterical.
@@MicMc539😅
It's wierd. I also have only 4 fingers on my right hand. And also one thumb.
You could have been cast in this film!
@@residentalien7055
Finally. Something funny from crabby old alien.
Must have been a joke played by the props master, matches George can't blow out!
Good movie keep you on the edge of your seat George Raft a good man 💪
George Raft. My mistake
It kept me on the verge of slumber.
@@tammycarter6144and "resident alien 7055" (again): Good Grief...so many critics!
Read a decent bio on George Raft and watch his early films and consider his unpretentious beginnings and the times he grew up in, his creative energy and accomplishments, the control by big Studios...guess that's what we see in George Raft.
To my complete surprise, it is an excellent movie (the punchline at the end)!
spoiler ...
@@Jorge-yy3dd Meuh non.
So classical 🎉✌️👑💖🍾
jomon723, I agree! That walk was wicked cool. Not to mention his incredible dance talent!
George Raft made a lot of great gangster movies but my favorite non-gangster one was, "Bolero".
He becomes one of the top Tango dancers in the world.
It's great and Raft is the one really doing the dancing.
George Raft at the time was a bigger star than Boggart and turned down Casablanca and Maltese Falcon.
Very true...but I loved them both ❤️
@@deborahthomas9362 Bogart was a much better actor. The treasure of the Sierra Moddre is one hell of a movie. I think I have seen three Raft movies, they drove by night, some like it hot and this. I can’t say he is spectacular in any of them.
And the world is a much better place for that! A wooden actor of the highest order. Dreadful.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb l find Bogie was often the same character. Cynical often. Don't like the African Queen or the later movies. Repetitive but everyone has their own opinion. George was super sexy.
@@bambinoandmore46 I agree with your assessment of Bogie. His cynicism and his indifference towards everyone is what made him appeal to the French and for our times. I have only seen Some like it hot and this movie, so perhaps my opinion is more skewed than it should be.
The fight scene near the end in the train was not Geoge as his hair is short, the stunt man fighting had longish fair hair. Still a great old movie.
one word CLASS
"HE has only FOUR fingers on his right hand"...well, that narrows it down to about...2,640,278,797 people. (1953)
I like how he walks 🕵🏽
Like a telephone pole, you mean?
There's something about Raft' eyes that are "unearthly". Db
He gets a lot of mileage out of one suit. He sleeps in, gets attacked in it, tied up in it and it still clean and pressed the next time he wears it.
Released November 27th,1953
For a change you have no idea of the good guys and bad guys. You are riding around with Raft wondering what is going on and who to trust.
Please do'n't cut the end credits - they're part of the film.
A quite good film. Interesting that it made a year before the war started. Algerian war of independence. Also, i noting that cars in those days how the doos opened. Seems the more natural way to get out of a car. Why were doors on cars changed?
Good ol George.
53:02 where he says "The Music" - It was sample in a hip hop record in years gone by, I can hear it clear as day but can't remember the name of the track... anyone know?
Just tosses the match on the back seat of her car.😀
It's an interesting movie in that Raft is intrigued with getting close to the gold. Which is apparently the reason he gets involved in the first place. The ending is confusing with some odd things taking place on the train. Turn around and there you are and everything is okay. Anyway, worth watching while playing Solitaire.
I thought I was the only nerdy person who played solitaire & sudoku while listening to CZcams videos
No pude activar subtítulo en español.
The music sounded like it was from one of those Garde B science fiction movies from the 1950's involving mutant ants or space aliens. Actual French gold went to Canada, the US, Martinique and West Africa - some of it Belgian and that was alter all shipped to Berlin.
Raft seems unwell in this
Yes, I thought the same re his health. If the film was 1954, Raft was about 60 years old and dealing with emphysema. Yet, he lived to 80 and was still doing interviews! In numerous bios I have read, many celebrities from that era died early from excessive tobacco use.
George Raft played quite well the "villain" in the famous Billy Wilder's "Some like it hot"..., but I have, actually, watched "The Cairo..." to enjoy the attractive actress ... which had been one of my "charm ladies" onto the moving pictures screen during my early teen age..., as she acted as the beautiful queen THEODORA of Constantinople,.. alongside emperor Justinian...
A lot of those men are dressed pretty warmly for Cairo. I saw some tweeds and overcoats.
Was this in Cairo? So why were the French and Algerian police there?
Don't let the name of the film confuse you. The whole story takes place in Algeria.
Yes, it's more Arctic-like in Algiers. @@e-curb
Not too mention her furs in subtropical Algeria.
George Raft, a real class act.
why do you think that?
@@markheller1382he was immaculately dressed and worked until he died. Was a true friend and led a colourful life. His voice his hypnotic
@@bambinoandmore46 Yes, that voice! Not to mention his eyes! And any dance scenes, of course. His acting style was subtle but effective.💥
I'm no George Raft expert, but judging from this outing his acting consisted of never changing a very stiff expression.
Maybe it worked as a gangster. Here it's out of place -- he fails to respond to anything.
@@meofamily4 I have to admit, you have a valid point lol.
GROAN... Love the era but even George couldn't save this junk... sad... :-(
There is a lot of comment on actor George Raft. He is a "cheap imitation" of James Cagney. (Everybody is.)
The Gangster genre started with Edward G. Robinson. In his film "Little Caesar". BUT, Cagney quickly took the lead. Becoming America's Favorite actor. The TOP Box-office draw for 3 years in a row. A feat only ever duplicated by one other. Shirley Temple, the greatest child star of all time.
My father was there at that time. This may explain the family fortune and its myth. Or not.
mine also
I'm watching these oldies and really feel it was more about the story and movie than today.
Today we have these big attitude actors that stink out
the scene, as they are just so full of themselves.
If l start watching something from today,
I just switch off 🎉😂
Hacen falta subtítulos.
He’s more like a G-Man” than an actual actor!
A slower moving Casablanca. George Raft sounds just like Bogey! Thank you 👏
Funny
Think you got that backwards...Raft was a successful
and versatile working actor/dancer for years before "Bogie" appeared!
I don’t understand one ☝️ single, solitary thing that is going on in this movie. Not who the good guys are or who the good guys are. It all a complete mystery to me. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
Watch it again?
How many good guys are enough? 😊🎉
carlpyper7771, Also "worth watching" for Raft's presence, no crazy drama but subtly effective. The eyes, his voice, and OMG any dance scenes!
"I can't tell, it's confidential. I am heading to Saudi Arabia in order to meet four-fingered man" 😂 I am happy, though, that persons do not smoke all the time like chimney.
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Young Irene Papas in the bathtub 😊
Solid postwar espionage caper. Probably one of the influences for Steven Spielberg to create Indiana Jones.
And for any director to avoid lousy production values.
By the numbers story, but those numbers were high numbers. Tight and fairly intriguing story, solid 90 minutes. No Scorsese or Tarantino over blown trickery.
Amazingly, he was the love of one of the greatest movie stars ever, Norma Shearer.
Women loved him and he loved them. Watch Rum a and notice how he kisses Carole Lombard! A rare kiss
@@bambinoandmore46 I think it is he was friends with the mob, too. This is true. When I was 16 my family vacationed in Havana where the mob ruled, and I saw George there. Did you know he turned down the Rick tole in Casablanca? Thanks
@@charlescohen6140 Not true, Jack Warner (Warner Bros) wanted Raft but the Producer Hal B Wallis wanted Bogart, and it was in Wallis' contract that HE chose the star, so Warner relented. : )
@@spockboy Thanks for the correction. But it worked out fairly well. Isn't Michael Curtis the most amazing director in history? Such diverse great films.
@@charlescohen6140 Absolutely, he also did my favorite swashbuckler "The Sea Hawk" genres were irrelevant to him. Pure talent.
That George Raft character and the actress (Hedy Lamarr?) have no on-screen chemistry
Even the kiss is at the wrong place and seems unnatural, forced.
THAT'S HEDLEY LAMARR !!!
It’s either we all watch George Raft or we all listen to George gutless wonder bush … on the bubbles and banana show. Now turn around and watch the show!
It turned to be a pretty decent movie, although "Look! Over there!" was not an especially promising opening line.
Near Oriental Intrigue!
So did Sid James.
If this were a Bogert film,he would've said,"I hope to see more of you" where George just says " I must come to see you "😊 to the girl in the tub....