Trunk to Cairo

Trunk to Cairo
File:Ttcpos.jpg Original film poster
Directed by	Menahem Golan
Produced by	Menahem Golan
Written by	Marc Behm Alexander Ramati
Starring	Audie Murphy George Sanders
Music by	Dov Seltzer
Cinematography	Mimish Herbst
Edited by	Danny Shik
Production company	CCC Film Noah Films
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release dates	28 December 1966 (1966-12-28)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	English

Trunk to Cairo is a 1966 Israeli/West German international co-production spy film distributed by American International Pictures.

Plot

Mike Merrick (Audie Murphy) is an American agent who is sent to meet with Professor Schlieben (George Sanders) a German scientist. During the mission it is revealed that the professor is a Neo-Nazi, developing a weaponized rocket that can be used against the Western world. Merrick now must destroy the rocket plans hidden in Schlieben's lab. Things are further complicated when Radical Muslims insist on destroying the rocket themselves and Merrick. After kidnapping Schlieben's daughter he must now escape Middle Eastern intelligence agencies against impossible odds.

Cast

• Audie Murphy .... Mike Merrick
• George Sanders .... Professor Schlieben
• Marianne Koch .... Helga Schlieben
• Hans von Borsody .... Hans Klugg
• Joseph Yadin .... Captain Gabar
• Gila Almagor .... Yasmin
• Eytan Priver .... Jamil
• Bomba Zur .... Ali
• Ze'ev Berlinski
• Shlomo Paz
• Anna Schnell
• Eliezer Young

Trivia

• Murphy's first non-western or war film since The Quiet American.

• The film's title was inspired by the 1964 discovery at Rome Airport of a bound and drugged man inside a trunk sent from the Egyptian Embassy at Rome to Cairo, marked "diplomatic mail."

External links

• Trunk to Cairo at IMDb