| Foxhole in Cairo | |
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| Directed by | John Llewelly Moxey |
| Produced by | Steven Pallos |
| Written by | Leonard Mosley |
| Starring | James Robertson Justice Adrian Hoven Fenella Fielding |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Distributed by | British Lion Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1960 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Foxhole in Cairo is a 1960 British war film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and based on a novel by Leonard Mosley itself based upon the real-life Operation Salaam. It starred James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding and Henry Oscar. Future star Michael Caine makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles.[1]
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During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 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.
A 1961 New York Times review described the film as "a routine British-made espionage yarn" calling the plot "slack and predictable", while praising the professional performance of James Robertson Justice.[2]