German spies Adrian Hoven and Neill McCallum head to Cairo to find out for Rommel where the British plan to counter-attack in the desert campaign. They seem to be doing very well, but don't they realize that James Robertson Justice is head of Navy Counter-Intelligence in Cairo? What's that? Wasn't Operation Salaam an Army operation? Nominally, but putting him in the army would have required Justice to shave his beard.
It's not a particularly gripping story except that I kept wonder when, if ever, anyone was going to do anything to stop the Nasty Nazis. I also kept looking for Michael Caine, who is supposed to be in this as a German soldier. I couldn't spot him.
Director John Llewellyn Moxey was better known for a long career in television than for the eight minor films he was in charge of. In the late 1960s, he moved from Britain to Hollywood, where he continued to direct, ending with MURDER SHE WROTE about 1991. He died in 2019, 94 years of age.
