Franchot Tone
Cpl. John J. Bramble/Paul Davos
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Cast
- Anne BaxterMouche
- Erich von StroheimField Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Akim TamiroffFarid
- Peter van EyckLt. Schwegler
- Fortunio BonanovaGen. Sebastiano
- Konstantin ShayneMaj. Von Buelow
- Fred NurneyMaj. Lamprecht
- Miles ManderColonel Fitzhume
Leslie DenisonBritish Captain
Ian KeithCapt. St. Bride- Otto ReichowGerman Engineer
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Five Graves to Cairo: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Fortunio Bonanova. In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters.
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- Thriller, War
- Billy Wilder
- 1943-07-12
Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy felvonásban, including the 1927 film Hotel Imperial.
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
Five Graves to Cairo - Full Cast & Crew. At a desert hotel during World War II, a British corporal goes undercover to wangle secrets from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of his British tank crew, struggles out of the tank, which is roving aimlessly across the desert, and crawls across the sand dunes until he reaches the desolate town of Sidi Halfaya.
