High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew`s, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The music score is by Herbert Stothart. The film was poorly received upon its initial release.