Port Afrique

Tag: Movie

Title: Port Afrique
AKA: Port Afrique
Year: 1956
Character: Franz Vermes
Director: Rudolph Maté
Cameraman: Wilkie Cooper
Screenplay: Bernard Victor Dryer, Frank Partos, John Cresswell
Runtime: 92
Country: UK
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Studio: Coronado Productions
Classification:
Notes:

Language: English
Audio: Mono
Colour: Color (Technicolor)
Tagline: Danger's Own Port of Entry!
AMAZING ADVENTURE in Port Afrique (original poster)
Actually filmed in Morocco's fabled "Forbidden City!" (original poster)
GIRL WITHOUT A PASSPORT...MAN WITHOUT A FUTURE - Trapped in the sin-streets and death alleys of the mysterious Casbah! (original six-sheet poster)
CROSS-ROADS OF INTERNATIONAL EVIL! (original 3-sheet poster-all caps)
DRAMATIC AS "CASABLANCA!" - ROMANTIC AS "ALGIERS!" (original poster-all caps)

 

Plot:

Adapted from a novel by Bernard Victor Dyer, Port Afrique offers an unusual screen romantic team in the form of two-fisted Phil Carey and ethereally beautiful Pier Angeli. Carey plays Rip Reardon, a WW2 veteran who returns to his "second home" in Morocco for a reunion with his wife. Upon arrival, Reardon discovers that his wife was murdered, though the police insist that she died by her own hand. Smelling a cover-up, Reardon conducts his own investigation, which leads him through some of the seedier portions of Port Afrique. Along the way, he meets and briefly romances nightclub singer Ynez (Angeli), who may or may not have had something to do with his wife's death.

Cast:

Pier Angeli as Ynez
Philip Carey as Rip Reardon
Dennis Price as Robert Blackton
Eugene Deckers as Colonel Moussac
James Hayter as Nino
Pat O'Meara as Guitarist
Richard Molinas as Captain
Guy De Monceau as Police Driver
Anthony Newley as Pedro
Jacques Cey as Waiter
Dorothy White as Berger Girl
Denis Shaw as Grila
Marie Hanson as Georgette
Rachel Gurney as Diane Blackton
Guido Lorraine as Abdul
André Maranne as Police Officer
Lorenza Colville as Bouala
Christopher Lee as Franz Vermes
Maureen Connell as Native Model
Eric Lindsay as Senegalese Boy
Auric Lorand as Sentry
Larry Taylor as First Arab
George Leech as Second Arab
Andreas Malandrinos as Gardner
The Kentones as Title Song Singers (as the Ken-Tones)

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