Released in Italy as Italian: Dramma nella Kasbah/Avventura ad Algeri, it also went under the alternative English titles Cairo Incident, Adventure in Algiers and Secrets of the Casbah.

Therefore an American agent, Charles Stark, is called in and, while passing through Cairo in order to establish his cover story, runs into his friend Mike Canelli, an ex-serviceman who had served in Algeria for three months in 1942.

Nearly arrested for her subsequent murder, he is only released when the singer's friend, Lorraine Beloyan, fails to identify him as the visitor.

As Charles Stark arrives at the airport in Algiers to complete his assignment, Canelli is departing with Lorraine and hands his friend a newspaper with the headline reporting that an American tourist has already solved the mystery.

[3] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, Howard Thompson found the film to be formulaic though having "a sleazy, authentic-looking backdrop."