Trunk to Cairo

<h2 id="plot">Plot</h2>
<p>Mike Merrick (<a href="/facts/Audie_Murphy/yAQbswMI">Audie Murphy</a>) is an American agent who is sent to meet with Professor Schlieben (<a href="/facts/George_Sanders/ILSfqW00">George Sanders</a>) a German scientist. During the mission it is revealed that the professor is 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 killing Merrick. After kidnapping Schlieben's daughter he must now escape Middle Eastern intelligence agencies against impossible odds.
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<h2 id="cast">Cast</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Audie_Murphy/yAQbswMI">Audie Murphy</a>  as Mike Merrick</li>
<li><a href="/facts/George_Sanders/ILSfqW00">George Sanders</a>  as Professor Schlieben</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marianne_Koch/H5yxmXGT">Marianne Koch</a>  as Helga Schlieben</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hans_von_Borsody/Yag1zHkK">Hans von Borsody</a>  as Hans Klugg</li>
<li>Joseph Yadin  as Captain Gabar</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gila_Almagor/o7L7vmje">Gila Almagor</a>  as Yasmin</li>
<li>Eytan Priver  as Jamil</li>
<li>Bomba Zur  as Ali</li>
<li>Zeev Berlinsky as Benz</li>
<li>Shlomo Vishinsky as Jacob</li>
<li>Tikva Mor as Christina</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Elana_Eden/4G0slxnI">Elana Eden</a> as Hadassa</li>
<li>Mona Silberstein  as Hostess</li>
<li>Yoel Noyman as Egyptian Colonel</li>
<li>Anna Schell  as Belly Dancer</li>
<li>Suzanna Ratoni Fräulein Bruckner</li>
<li>Menashe Glazier as Mahmud</li></ul>
<h2 id="production">Production</h2>
<p>It was shot at the <a href="/facts/Spandau_Studios/87HwKu7g">Spandau Studios</a> in <a href="/facts/Berlin/pMTIRNXK">Berlin</a> and <a href="/facts/Location_shooting/3e3h5G5a">on location</a> in <a href="/facts/Rome/bh1Ttx3T">Rome</a> and <a href="/facts/Israel/dEe3IcaY">Israel</a> from June to July 1965.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> 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 "<a href="/facts/Diplomatic_bag/IEd9LgE4">diplomatic mail</a>."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="soundtrack">Soundtrack</h2>
<p>The film score was by <a href="/facts/Dov_Seltzer/Em0C9P9p">Dov Seltzer</a> and featured a song "Dangerous Woman" written by Jean Raskin and sung by Ouela Gill.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Operation_Damocles/oYNXDUA9">Operation Damocles</a> (German rocket scientists in Egypt)</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061123/"><i>Trunk to Cairo</i></a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Trunk to Cairo". audiemurphy.com. Retrieved 6 December 2013. <a href="http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies42.htm" target="_blank">http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies42.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>p. 201 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd The Films of Audie Murphy McFarland & Co Inc.  31 May 2004 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Victim of Kidnapping in Trunk Identifies Himself as an Israeli". The New York Times. 20 November 1964. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/20/victim-of-kidnapping-in-trunk-identifies-himself-as-an-israeli.html?_r=0" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/20/victim-of-kidnapping-in-trunk-identifies-himself-as-an-israeli.html?_r=0</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>The Films of Audie Murphy - Page 212 0786445084 Bob Larkins, Boyd Magers - 2004 ... Daliah Priver; Sound Recording: Z. Naghtigal; Hair Stylist: R. Rimmel; Music: Dov Seltzer; Song: "Dangerous Woman" by ... such was the demand that even the shoddiest European co-production could find a willing market, so Trunk to Cairo . <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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