Reviews for Cairo
Review - Cairo
A very few mildly amusing scenes mixed in with a great deal of silliness and some lousy songs. I especially am not a fan of Jeanette MacDonald's operatic style.
Reviewed by Roger on 2025-02-01 18:33:12
Cairodirected by W.S. Van Dyke | |
| Category: |
"Comedy" |
|---|---|
| Year of Release: | 1942 |
| Date Added: | 02/01/2025 |
| Date Watched: | 02/01/2025 |
| Description: | Silly spoof of spy movies crossed with a musical. Newspaper reporter Homer Smith (Robert Young) is sent to Egypt to cover the war. Shipwrecked on the way, he meets Philo, who tells Homer he's a British spy and sends him to Cairo with a message. Homer doesn't realize it, but Philo is really a Nazi, as is the woman he sends Homer to meet. The woman quickly figures out that Homer doesn't know what he's doing, so she tells him American singer/actress Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald) is a Nazi leader of a band of saboteurs. Homer gets a job as Marcia's butler, and the two of them simultaneously suspect each other of something sinister and fall in love. They finally figure out that they're on the same side, but then Homer gets caught by the real Nazis, who trap him in a remotely controlled airplane that's sent to crash into a troop transport. Homer gets message to Marcia, who brings the real British intelligence and catches the Nazis. Homer disarm the plane and escapes, the marries Marcia. |
| My Rating: | 5 |