Cairo

Name: Cairo
Director: Wolf Rilla
Released: 1963

1963 film by Wolf Rilla

FilmfilmQ18636400

Released: 1963
Director: Wolf Rilla
1
Sources
1.imdb.com/title/tt0056894/Retrieved 2016-05-08
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Screenwriter: Joan Scott
Producer: Ronald Kinnoch
Cast: George Sanders
, Faten Hamama
, Ahmad Mazhar
, Richard Johnson
+3 more
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: crime film
1
Sources
1.imdb.com/title/tt0056894/Retrieved 2016-05-08
View statement on Wikidata ↗
, drama film
, action film
Country of origin: United States
, Egypt

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Cairo is a 1963 heist film directed by Wolf Rilla, written by Joan LaCour Scott, and starring George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar and Eric Pohlmann. It is a remake of the 1950 film noir The Asphalt Jungle, relocated from the American Midwest to the titular Egyptian city. The film was released in January 1963 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Overview

All data

70 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Title: Cairo
Color: color
Director of photography: Desmond Dickinson
Narrative location: Egypt

On other databases

44 identifiers linking Cairo across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

11%

externally sourced

Source last edited October 25, 2026. AIDb refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q18636400

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDb. (2026). Cairo (Q18636400). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/cairo-Q18636400