Foxhole in Cairo (1960)

Directed by

John Llewellyn Moxey

Genre

spy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In World War Two, German spies in Cairo try to pass military secrets to their commanders. British intelligence works to stop them based on real events.

tensesuspensefulgrittyhistoricalmethodicalseriousespionage-heavy

What happens

Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar. It was written by Leonard Mosley and Donald Taylor based on Mosley's 1958 novel The Cat and the Mice, based upon the real-life Operation Salaam and the activity of Abwehr agents Johannes Eppler and Hekmet Fahmy. Future star Michael Caine makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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