Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 2, 1951

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Though it may prove almost as marketable as Casablanca, Sirocco is an inferior product, either as romance or melodrama. The story, dialogue and atmosphere have not been fitted together with as much care, and like the star himself (who comes equipped with cigarette and the standard belted trench coat), they are beginning to look a little shopworn. Contrary to one school of Hollywood thought, Sirocco suggests that making movies may not really be quite as simple as manufacturing pants.