"Was there anything special about her?"

"Yes pearls, the color I like and perhaps I can appreciate...platinum and diamonds; and she didn't buy her perfume in Algiers."

"So all you noticed were the jewels and perfume?"

"Was there anything else?"

Notorious jewel thief Pepe le Moko (Charles Boyer) recounting last night's Casbah visit from beautiful French tourist Gaby (Hedy Lamar) with Slimane (Joseph Alexander Caesar Herstall Vincent Calleja) in Director John Cromwell's film Algiers (1938).

 

 

 

July 09, 2023 — Jeffrey Dame

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