Facing execution, Harry agrees to help Feroud meet with Hassan. Hassan calls the colonel a fool and dismisses his plea for negotiations, but decides to spare his life when Harry and Feroud's aide Major Leon show up offering a £10,000 ransom. The officers are allowed to leave; Harry is not so lucky. The rebels are angered that he has revealed the location of their headquarters to the French and fear he has sold them out, so they kill him. As Feroud and Leon walk back, they notice that the incessant gunfire and explosions have stopped. Feroud wonders aloud if he has convinced Hassan to be as big a fool. Cast Humphrey Bogart as Harry Smith Märta Torén as Violetta Lee J. Cobb as Col. Feroud Everett Sloane as Gen. LaSalle Gerald Mohr as Major Leon Zero Mostel as Balukjiaan Nick Dennis as Nasir Aboud, Harry's assistant Onslow Stevens as Emir Hassan Ludwig Donath as Flophouse Proprietor David Bond as Achmet Harry Cording as Master Sergeant (uncredited) Jeff Corey as Feisal (uncredited) Critical reception Film critic Bosley Crowther lambasted the film and wrote, "Except for a few moody moments in a plaster night-club, called the Moulin Rouge, and some shadowy shots of sloppy Syrians lying around in dingy catacombs, the scene is no more suggestive of Damascus than a Shriners' convention in New Orleans, on which occasion you would see more fezzes than ever show up in this film. For the most part—indeed, for the sole part—Sirocco wafts a torpid tale of a slick, sneering gun-runner proving a painful thorn in a nice French colonel's side." Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film a mixed review, writing, "I'd always read that it was a half-baked attempt to rekindle some of the ingredients that made Casablanca such a success, and that's true. The setting is Damascus in 1926, when the French Army is battling Syrian insurgents...Sirocco is strictly formula stuff, but it's a perfect example of how Hollywood could take ordinary material and still make it entertaining, through sheer professional polish in the writing, staging, art direction, and casting. Zero Mostel, Gerald Mohr, and Nick Dennis head the colorful supporting cast, who perform well under Curtis Bernhardt's direction." References External links 1951 films 1951 romantic drama films American romantic drama films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films Film noir Films based on French novels Films set in 1925 Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt