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The Man From Cairo (1953), an American/British/Italian film noir filmed in Italy and Algeria and largely set in Algeria. The premise is simple even if the movie is complex. Basically, tourist Mike Canelli (George Raft), while vacationing in Algeria, is mistaken for a friend of his, an American detective who was to assist French authorities to find a vast amount of missing French gold, hidden during World War II but now some of it has been robbed (I believe $100 million). Canelli gets involved in a tangled noirish web of others looking for the gold, local officials suspicious of Canelli and suspecting him of a murder (connected to the missing gold), and people who aren’t what they seem, complete with noirish double crosses and knocking people out, hunts for a McGuffin, going to fancy nightclubs, lots of hard drinking, most of the noirish tropes. Chief among those who get tangled up in the quest Canelli finds himself caught up in is a nightclub singer named Lorraine Belogne (played by Italian actress Gianna Maria Canale), who may or not be manipulating Canelli and may or may not be in love with him but very much wants her cut of the stolen gold.On the plus side, I loved the Algerian atmosphere, all the French and Arab elements, the whole noirish lighting (very effective in Algerian marketplaces and hotels), there is some nice music we see performed, and the final scene is climatic and excellent. This could have been a great film noir with a wonderful international atmosphere, maybe alongside other postwar film noir adventures exploring fallout from World War II like _The Third Man_ and _The Stranger_.On the negative side, the plotting is confusing at times, pacing could be slow at times, and George Raft has the flattest and most unimaginative performance of any film noir lead I have ever seen. I didn’t buy the romance between him and Lorraine, though to be fair maybe I wasn’t supposed to, as Lorraine might have been conning him at least a significant portion of the film. The framing mechanism with the American friend actually sent to investigate the missing French gold but never actually getting to do so was odd? Seemed unnecessary to have so much time spent on it, as the character otherwise had no role in the film other than being a person Canelli was mistaken for. That’s it.I would say watch it if you are film noir completist like me and/or appreciate films noir set or filmed outside the U.S.. It's not bad, a little slow and dull at times. It is a shame, as it had a lot to work with.