Foxhole in Cairo
Cast & Crew
John Moxey
James Robertson-justice
Adrian Hoven
Niall Macginnis
Peter Van Eyck
Robert Urquhart
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Synopsis
In 1942, Rommel halts his victorious Afrika Korps and sends German agent John Eppler and radio operator Sandy to Cairo. Their mission is to learn where the British plan to launch their counteroffensive. Eppler immediately communicates with Amina, an Egyptian cabaret dancer and his former mistress, who agrees to help him. Unknown to them, British counterespionage chief Captain Robertson has learned of Eppler's presence in Cairo and is working with the leader of Cairo's Jewish underground, Radek. Amina lures an ineffectual British officer, Major Wilson, to her houseboat and has him drugged and robbed of his briefcase containing British counteroffensive details. While Eppler and Sandy relay the information to Rommel that the battle will take place at Alam Halfa, Yvette, a member of the Jewish underground, sneaks aboard the boat and revives the unconscious Wilson. They are interrupted by Amina, who shoots Wilson but is herself stabbed to death by Yvette. Eppler arrives and is about to kill Yvette when Robertson and Radek appear and arrest Eppler. Eppler's satisfaction at having already informed Rommel that the counteroffensive will take place at Alam Halfa is short-lived. Robertson had seen to it that the plans in Wilson's briefcase were false--the real battle will take place at El Alamein.
Director
John Moxey
Cast
James Robertson-justice
Adrian Hoven
Niall Macginnis
Peter Van Eyck
Robert Urquhart
Neil Mccallum
Fenella Fielding
Gloria Mestre
Albert Lieven
John Westbrook
Lee Montague
Henry Oscar
Howard Marion Crawford
Anthony Newlands
Richard Vernon
Michael Caine
Storm Durr
Nancy Nevinson
John Blythe
Jerome Willis
Lane Meddick
Crew
Ben Arbeid
Jack Atchelor
Barbara Barnard
John Blezard
David Catley
Alan Corder
Paddy Cunningham
Desmond Dickinson
Ronnie Fox-rogers
Stuart Freeborn
Douglas Gamley
Douglas Gamley
Freda Gibson
Eric Gray
Lois Gray
Oswald Hafenrichter
Ken Jones
Patricia Kirschner
Carl Mannin
Cynthia Maugham
Leonard Mosley
Steven Pallos
Harry Parr
Yvonne Richards
Ken Ritchie
Frank Robertson
Wolfram Roehrig
Jack Smart
Ted Sturgis
Donald Taylor
Donald Taylor
Derek Whitehurst
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Opened in London in October 1960.
