Sirocco (1951)
Actors:
Harry Guardino (actor),
John Halloran (actor),
Paul Fierro (actor),
Humphrey Bogart (actor),
John Bleifer (actor),
Dick Botiller (actor),
Peter Brocco (actor),
Jack Chefe (actor),
Lee J. Cobb (actor),
Tristram Coffin (actor),
David Bond (actor),
Ludwig Donath (actor),
Harry Cording (actor),
Jeff Corey (actor),
Chuck Hamilton (actor),
Plot: In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them. He develops an interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette.
Keywords: apricot, arms-dealer, barber-shop, based-on-novel, belly-dancer, black-market, camel, catacombs, cease-fire, damascus-syria
Genres:
Action,
Drama,
Taglines: BEYOND CASABLANCA . . . Fate, in a Low-cut Gown, Lies in Wait for Bogart! Beyond Casablanca... In Damascus... Destiny, in a low-cut gown, beckons from the Devil's Doorway!
Quotes:
Gen. LaSalle: My soldiers didn't survive Verdun to have their throats cut in this stinking hole!
Col. Feroud: [discussing Smith] As far as I know he's reliable, but don't trust him.
Nasir Aboud: [hearing gunfire] It's a French gun.::Harry Smith: What do you care whose gun it is as long as it isn't aimed at you?
Achmet: What an oddity you are, Mr. Smith, - an American in Damascus. No morals! No political convictions!::Harry Smith: I've had a few.::Achmet: I find that difficult to believe.::Harry Smith: I had a bellyful of them. I left them in the states with my first wife!::Achmet: Isn't there anything you believe in?::Harry Smith: You mean right now? Sure! [looking through the envelope of money he has just been paid off with] I believe in this, and it's two thousand short!
Feisal: [skulking into the barber shop] You wish to buy some jewels?::Harry Smith: You got some good ones?::Feisal: Beautiful jewels fit for a dream of a girl, one who is different!::Nasir Aboud: Ah, they're all the same!::Feisal: Oh, no, each new girl is different. With each new love a mist comes before the eyes, the pleasure you will have before the mist rises and you find out that she's like all the others!
Nasir Aboud: Hey, what's the matter with you?::Balukjiaan: Nothing is the matter. Why?::Nasir Aboud: You look sick. [to his assistant] Doesn't he look sick?::Nasir's assistant: Yeah!::Balukjiaan: I'm never sick!::Nasir Aboud: That's what my poor father said just before he died.
Balukjiaan: [entering the warehouse] Nasir, my little lamb, my sweet friend!::Nasir Aboud: [with sarcasm] We smelled you coming.::Balukjiaan: Uh?::Nasir's assistant: He said you smell like a goat!
The barber: Get your big stomach out of my way!::Balukjiaan: My poor stomach! Every little thing upsets it. Do you have any soda?::Harry Smith: What's the matter with your stomach?::Balukjiaan: It talks to me like my conscience.::Harry Smith: What does it say?::Balukjiaan: It says,"Levon, my lamb, why do you stay in this terrible town? Why don't you go away - far away?"
Harry Smith: [to Violette] I don't know whether I'm too good for you, or you're too good for me.
Emir Hassan: [to Feroud] We do not fight to win. You will win, but it will be a victory you will regret.