Cairo

A fairly decent remake of The Asphalt Jungle - on its own terms.

The director Rilla stuck reasonably closely to John Huston's film script.

I would have given this 6, but the presence of George Sanders and Walter Rilla add a touch of much needed class.

Richard Johnson 'browning up' as an Arab is somewhat outré, though Johnson is slightly more convincing than Sterling Hayden in the original. The scene where Sanders is entranced by a belly dancing lady is also more believable than Sam Jaffe being entranced by a young woman jiving to juke box tunes in a small diner.

Worth watching as a curio and to compare it scene by scene to The Asphalt Jungle.