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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Foxhole in Cairo<br />
| image = Foxhole_in_Cairo_(1960_film).jpg<br />
| image_size = <br />
| caption = Original British quad poster<br />
| director = [[John Llewellyn Moxey]]<br />
| producer = [[Steven Pallos]]<br>Donald Taylor<br />
| screenplay = [[Leonard Mosley]]<br>Donald Taylor<br />
| based_on = novel ''The Cat and the Mice'' by Leonard Mosley<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[James Robertson Justice]]<br>[[Adrian Hoven]]<br>[[Fenella Fielding]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Desmond Dickinson]]<br />
| music = [[Douglas Gamley]]<br>[[Ken Jones (music)|Ken Jones]]<br />
| studio = Omnia Films<br />
| distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1960}}<br />
| runtime = 80 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = <br />
}}<br />
'''''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]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FszeCwAAQBAJ&q=foxhole+in+cairo+denis+gifford&pg=PT463|title=British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film|first=Denis|last=Gifford|date=1 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317740629|via=Google Books}}</ref> It starred [[James Robertson Justice]], [[Adrian Hoven]], [[Fenella Fielding]] and [[Henry Oscar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aa8fead|title=Foxhole in Cairo (1960)|publisher=}}</ref> Future star [[Michael Caine]] makes a brief appearance as a German soldier, in one of his earlier screen roles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054891/|title=Foxhole in Cairo|date=28 October 1960|publisher=|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/foxhole-in-cairo-v92261|title=Foxhole in Cairo (1960) - John Llewellyn Moxey - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref><br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
During the [[World War II|Second World War]] Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] has placed two spies in [[Cairo]], at the headquarters of the British [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|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.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[James Robertson Justice]] as Captain Robertson<br />
* [[Adrian Hoven]] as [[Johannes Eppler|John Eppler]]<br />
* [[Niall MacGinnis]] as Radek<br />
* [[Peter van Eyck]] as [[László Almásy|Count Almassy]]<br />
* [[Robert Urquhart (actor)|Robert Urquhart]] as Major Wilson<br />
* [[Neil McCallum (actor)|Neil McCallum]] as Sandy<br />
* [[Fenella Fielding]] as Yvette<br />
* Gloria Mestre as Amina<br />
* [[Albert Lieven]] as [[Field Marshal Rommel|Erwin Rommel]]<br />
* [[John Westbrook (actor)|John Westbrook]] as Roger<br />
* [[Lee Montague]] as Aberle<br />
* [[Michael Caine]] as Weber<br />
* [[Henry Oscar]] as Col. Zeltinger<br />
* [[Howard Marion-Crawford]] as British Major<br />
* [[Anthony Newlands]] as S.S. Colonel<br />
* [[Richard Vernon]] as British General<br />
* [[Nancy Nevinson]] as Signorina Signorelli<br />
* [[Jerome Willis]] as 1st British Signals Sergeant<br />
* [[Philip Bond (actor)|Philip Bond]] as German signals sergeant<br />
* [[Walter Randall]] as 2nd Barman<br />
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==Reception==<br />
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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9504E3D71E3CE13ABC4E52DFB466838A679EDE|title=Screen: Wartime Spying; Foxhole in Cairo' Is British Import|newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 February 1961 |publisher=|last1=Thompson |first1=Howard }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Rommel Calls Cairo]]'' (1959)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0054891|Foxhole in Cairo}}<br />
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