Trunk to Cairo
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Plot
Mike Merrick (Audie Murphy) is an American agent who is sent to meet with Professor Schlieben (George Sanders) a German scientist. During the mission it is revealed that the professor is a Neo-Nazi, developing a weaponized rocket that can be used against the Western world. Merrick now must destroy the rocket plans hidden in Schlieben's lab. Things are further complicated when Radical Muslims insist on destroying the rocket themselves and Merrick. After kidnapping Schlieben's daughter he must now escape Middle Eastern intelligence agencies against impossible odds.
Cast
- Audie Murphy .... Mike Merrick
- George Sanders .... Professor Schlieben
- Marianne Koch .... Helga Schlieben
- Hans von Borsody .... Hans Klugg
- Joseph Yadin .... Captain Gabar
- Gila Almagor .... Yasmin
- Eytan Priver .... Jamil
- Bomba Zur .... Ali
- Ze'ev Berlinski
- Shlomo Paz
- Anna Schnell
- Eliezer Young
Trivia
- Murphy's first non-western or war film since The Quiet American.
- The film's title was inspired by the 1964 discovery at Rome Airport of a bound and drugged man inside a trunk sent from the Egyptian Embassy at Rome to Cairo, marked "diplomatic mail."[2]
References
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Trunk to Cairo at IMDb
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- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/20/victim-of-kidnapping-in-trunk-identifies-himself-as-an-israeli.html?_r=0
