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Algiers
(1938)
Genre(s):
Africa, Femme Fatale, Romantic Drama, Wrong Side of the Tracks
Cast:
Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Gene Lockhart, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale; DIRECTED BY: John Cromwell; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: James Wong Howe. PRODUCER: Walter Wanger.
Review:
Nearly a scene-for-scene Americanized remake of the 1937 French "Pepe Le Moko" about a beautiful rich girl (Lamarr) who meets and falls in love with a notorious thief (Boyer, then a leading sex symbol). Pursued by French police and hiding in the underworld-controlled Casbah, Boyer meets up with Lamarr in a tragically fated romance done in the best tradition of Hollywood. Boyer provides a measured performance as Le Moko, while Lamarr is appropriately sultry in her American film debut (which made her a star). Later remade as the semi-musical "Casbah."
NSS:
38-733
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