The Man From Cairo 1953

During World War II, the French government investigates the location of bullion stolen during the conflict—the gold reserves of the Free French transported to Algeria in 1940. One consignment worth $100 million had been ambushed, and the only survivor was General Dumont, who escaped before he could be tried. Five agents who pursued the hoard are murdered, heightening the urgency and danger surrounding the case.

An American agent, Charles Stark Richard McNamara, is summoned to help unravel the mystery. While passing through Cairo to establish his cover, he runs into his friend Mike Canelli George Raft, an ex-serviceman who had served in Algeria for three months in 1942.

Canelli continues on to Algiers and is drugged while visiting the room of a nightclub dancer. Nearly arrested for her subsequent murder, he is released when the singer’s friend, Lorraine Beloyan Gianna Maria Canale, fails to identify him. The two ordinary men become unlikely partners as they try to solve the crime, and a growing romance forms even as they attract the suspicion of the gang of thieves.

The tension escalates when Lorraine is kidnapped and taken aboard a freight train. Canelli undertakes a daring rescue, pulling her from danger just as the police, led by the disguised General Dumont, intercept the train, arrest the criminals, and recover the stolen money.

As Charles Stark arrives at the airport in Algiers to complete his assignment, Canelli leaves with Lorraine, passing him a newspaper bearing the headline that an American tourist has already solved the mystery.