Foxhole in Cairo

Infobox Film
name = Foxhole in Cairo
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director = John Llewelly Moxey
writer = Leonard Mosley
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starring = James Robertson Justice
Adrian Hovin
Fenella Fielding
distributor = British Lion Film Corporation
released = 1960
runtime = flagicon|UK 80 minutes
country = UK
language = English
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imdb_id = 0054891

Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley. It starred James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hovin, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar. Futurew star Michael Caine makes a brief appeareance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054891/]

ynopsis

During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommell has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort.

Reception

A 1961 New York Times review described the film as "a routine British-made espoinage yarn" calling the plot "slack and predictable", while praising the professional performance of James Robertson Justice. [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E3D71E3CE13ABC4E52DFB466838A679EDE]

Cast

* James Robertson Justice - Captain Robertson
* Adrian Hoven - John Eppler
* Niall MacGinnis - Radek
* Fenella Fielding - Yvette
* Peter van Eyck - Cont Almasky
* Albert Lieven - Field Marshal Rommel
* Michael Caine - Weber
* Richard Vernon - British General

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