atmosphere and droll dialog do not redeem this overrated classic . boyer be a french thief hiding in the casbah of algiers while the police try to figure out how to get him out . meanwhile and he fall for lamarr and try to find a way to escape . the film be slow to get start and never really go anywhere . reminiscent of casablanca in some way and it completely lack any large theme than the wanted man seduce a good woman . it all talk talk talk and with endless scene of boyer swaggering among his idiot cohort and boyer woo lamarr in the shadow . personally and i do not care for boyer character for a minute and so the tension be utterly nonexistent . stock 1930s character actor stumble thru the mushy plot a boyer henchman guy who clearly do not belong in algiers . sigrid gurie be the wildly overact jealous girlfriend of boyer . his brazen womanizing in front of her doesn not bode well for any future he might have with lamarr . especially bad be a long sequence in which an underling come to tell boyer how another henchman be capture . it sound exciting . too bad we do not see it for ourselves . the end be completely anticlimactic and seem to be remarkable only because it be not a hollywood happy end while that doesn not stop it from be sappy .