Casbah

Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

Cast

Yvonne De Carlo

as Inez

Tony Martin

as Pepe Le Moko

Peter Lorre

as Slimane

Märta Torén

as Gaby

Hugo Haas

as Omar

Thomas Gomez

as Louvain

Douglas Dick

as Carlo

Herbert Rudley

as Claude

Virginia Gregg

as Madeline

Curt Conway

as Maurice

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This is an odd film to watch, this one. Essentially it appears to be a post war vehicle for successful actor/crooner Tony Martin ("Pepe le Moko"), but somewhere along the line director John Berry loses his way with this hybrid of romantic musical - there are half a dozen numbers from Harold Arlen an...

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