Cairo

Name: Cairo
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Released: 1942-01-01

1942 film by W. S. Van Dyke

FilmfilmQ429098

Released: 1942
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0034565/Retrieved 2016-07-07
2.television.telerama.fr/tele/films/cairo,9512.phpRetrieved 2016-07-07
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2.television.telerama.fr/tele/films/cairo,9512.phpRetrieved 2016-07-07
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, Reginald Owen
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2.television.telerama.fr/tele/films/cairo,9512.phpRetrieved 2016-07-07
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Runtime: 100 min
Genre: romantic comedy
, musical film
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Country of origin: United States
Original language: English

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Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on an idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The music score is by Herbert Stothart. This film was Jeanette MacDonald's last film on her MGM contract.

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Narrative location: Egypt
Title: Cairo
Production designer: Cedric Gibbons
Color: black-and-white
Director of photography: Ray June
Film editor: James E. Newcom
Distribution format: video on demand

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