Cairo

1942

Action / Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 578 578

cairo espionage musical reporter

Plot summary

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Director

W.S. Van Dyke Photo
W.S. Van Dyke

Top cast

Charles Meakin Photo
Charles Meakin as Nightclub Patron
Frank Richards Photo
Frank Richards as Alfred
Edward Hearn Photo
Edward Hearn as Cavity Rock Townsman / Egyptian with Trampolines
Reginald Owen Photo
Reginald Owen as Philo Cobson
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926.34 MB
968*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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1.68 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by RNQ 6 / 10

Robert Young vs. Waters and Wilson

This would be OK as a wartime musical, praying that ships get back to the harbours of Home. But Robert Young's character in infuriating. The gags, the pratfalls aren't funny, or they require the mindset of the Three Stooges. This is supposed to be an investigative reporter? Classy Jeanette MacDonald is supposed to fall for this goofball? But what saves the movie, as other have noted, is Ethel Waters. Sure, she's dressed as a maid until she gets to do a stage number. And Dooley Wilson, who watches that number, is dressed as an "A-rab." And of course there's nobody else they can pair up with. But they steal the show, and inspire even MacDonald to move her hips for a moment. Not Robert Young's character, still out of it.
Reviewed by blanche-2 6 / 10

TCM gave this two stars

Really, they could have gone to 2-1/2. Would it have killed them? When I see two stars, I expect to see a complete disaster."Cairo" from 1942 is a bit convoluted, but there are some fun moments. The film stars Robert Young, Jeannette MacDonald, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli and Reginald Owen.Part of the problem with "Cairo" is you're not sure what you're watching - musical, comedy, drama, what? It's a comedy with music, but a bit unsure of itself. Young plays Homer Smith, a newspaper reporter who suspects the famous singer/movie star Marcia Warren of being a Nazi spy. She suspects him of being one as well. The best scene occurs when they go out for an evening, manage to get away from one another, and each go back to MacDonald's house to search the other's room. There's also a joke with her high C, which inadvertently opens a secret passage.One of the assets of "Cairo" is Jeannette MacDonald, who was so beautiful, and here she's in good voice and very appealing in her performances. Ethel Waters is wonderful, though she certainly could have done more. Young was never a top-flight movie star, but he does okay. MacDonald is excellent, very charming and funny.With a little work on the script, this could have been an excellent film. However, it looks like it was rushed out as a propaganda movie and done on the cheap. The film has some great in jokes. When Marcia Warren and Homer Smith question one another, they learn that they are both from California. She's from the north; he's from the south. Both denigrate where the other lives. Finally Smith says to her, "Have you ever been to San Francisco?" "Once," she answers, "with Gable and Tracy and the joint fell apart."
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