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...Charles Boyer first lured Hedy Lamarr to the Casbah in a film called Algiers. Since then the suave Frenchman has become permanently associated with the exotic atmosphere of Algiers' native quarter. Algiers, however, was only a mellowed version of the French production Pepe le Moko, and Boyer only a romantic substitute for a more brutal Pepe, played by Jean Gabin...
...provide an ironic contrast to Pepe's fanciful vision of freedom. The depraved gangster, trapped by both police and conscience, is forced to hide in the friendly surroundings of the native quarter. Ultimately his love for freedom and for the jeweled Gaby draws him from the safety of the Casbah to the dangers of the city. But even Pepe's love is evil, for Gaby is the mistress of another man. Gabin plays the part frankly and sadistically, yet he ended on a note of pathos, emotional enough for melodrama, and ironic enough to escape sentimentality...
...joined the Katherine Dunham regular company and we went on tour. There was Carib Song, which took place in Haiti or someplace like that, and other shows, and we toured all of Mexico, too. Then we went to Hollywood where I had a little bit of a part in Casbah, that awful thing with Tony Martin. I was the dancer who said, "Come on, Pepe," She snapped her fingers and wiggled in her chair...
Last week Producer Katzman cut his way out of his leafy jungle and put his name to a new contract with Columbia. The schedule: three serials, 17 features (Prisoners of the Casbah, Charge of the Lancers, Jesse James Meets Bill Dalton), and probably at least one more like the Biblical epic Slaves of Babylon, soon to be released. Says Jungle Sam: "We got underwater stuff and we got overwater stuff and we got those three characters in the fiery furnace and on top of that we got Linda Christian doing her first screen dance." He frankly admits that many...
...favelas of Rio de Janeiro are akin to Algiers' notorious Casbah. Teeming shanty towns, about 200 in number, they spot the city's steep hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...