Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo (M.G.M.) is an ingenious spy picture which engages in a lot of good-natured spoofing of the standard Hollywood thriller. Robert Young (sent to cover the war in Africa because he is a typical "smalltown reporter"), Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...
...football game. The eleven men from the TIME and LIFE News Bureau now on the Dark Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...
From Teheran came young Jim Aldridge, who joined our Cairo staff a week before Montgomery's attack-but who will soon be on his way to Moscow to take Walter Graebner's place there. And from Russia came Graebner himself, homeward bound to report what he learned during his five months with the Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them...
TIME'S Correspondent Walter Graebner, en route to the U.S. from Moscow, last week cabled from Cairo...
...CAIRO--The British Eighth Army was believed setting up tonight a big pincers movement on El Agheila, designed to clamp down on German Marshal Erwin Rommels shattered forces from both west and east when and if they attempt a stand in the narrow corridor there...