Only English-language film of Faten Hamamah, who was, at the time, Egypt's most popular female film star. She may have hoped for an international career to rival that of her then husband, Omar Sharif, but none eventuated.
One of three disguised remakes of "The Asphalt Jungle" to be made by MGM in the quarter-century after that famous film's original release. "The Badlanders" in 1958 turned the story into a western, this film moved the setting to Egypt and changed the characters, and "Cool Breeze" in 1972 was a "blaxploitation" version of the story.
Executive producer Lawrence P. Bachmann, the head of MGM's British operation, gleefully told an interviewer that none of the British critics had spotted that this was a remake of "The Asphalt Jungle". He neglected to mention that the film (released in the UK in as the lower half of a double-bill) was not press-shown to the newspaper critics. It was, however, reviewed in the British magazine "Films And Filming", whose critic, Raymond Durgnat, began his (unfavorable) review by comparing it at length to the 1950 movie.
The Major (George Sanders) is depicted as arriving at the Cairo International Airport on a United Arab Airlines (renamed Egyptair in 1971) De Havilland Comet 4C.
Released in the UK in the lower half of a double-bill with "Period Of Adjustment".
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