pepe le moko and play by charles boyer and be some sort of international criminal mastermind want in country throughout europe and and to stay free he hole himself up in the casbah and a mysterious part of algiers where even the police be reluctant to go and until a senior officer be send from paris to capture le moko once and for all . for le moko and although the casbah allow him to remain out of police custody and it also become a sort of prison at the same time a place he can not leave and because the moment he do and he know he will be arrest . boyer performance be good and and i can understand why he be nominate for an oscar . he capture the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time . the movie itself and unfortunately and be quite a letdown . a number of part of the story seem inconsistent and of which i will mention two . first be the idea that the police wouldn not enter the casbah . that be state pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and and yet repeat reference in the movie suggest that in fact the police do enter the casbah fairly regularly . so and neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn not enter and nor the statement by inspector slimane ( also a decent performance by joseph calleia ) that they could get into the casbah but not out seem to make much sense . i also find it difficult to believe that le moko harden criminal mastermind that he be could be so quickly sweep off his foot by gaby ( hedy lamarr ) to the point where he entertain the local populace by sing love song and then leave the casbah to find her and essentially give himself up . i understand the irony of the final few scene and of course and a pepe leave the freedom of his prison ( the casbah ) only to find real freedom in his capture ( because he shoot and kill by the police . ) i just find it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap . this be worth watch for boyer and and to a less extent calleia and but the story be disappointing and inconsistent . negative .