A fugitive is safe in the Casbah until a visitor from Paris gives him a reason to leave.
1938 · Romantic crime drama · 99 minutes (Wikimedia copy)
Synopsis
French jewel thief Pépé le Moko hides in the winding streets of the Casbah in Algiers, where Inspector Slimane knows better than to arrest him. Then Pépé meets Gaby, a visitor whose talk of Paris makes him homesick. Slimane sees a chance to draw him out, and Pépé has to decide whether seeing Gaby again is worth the risk.
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Video source: Wikimedia Commons · Algiers (1938), directed by John Cromwell.
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Production credits
Director: John Cromwell
Producer: Walter Wanger
Screenplay: John Howard Lawson, with additional dialogue by James M. Cain
Cinematography: James Wong Howe
Editing: Otho Lovering and William Reynolds
Art direction: Alexander Toluboff
Distributor: United Artists
Behind the film
A Hollywood remake of Julien Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko (1937), Algiers marked Hedy Lamarr’s American film debut.