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Director Billy Wilder's WWII espionage thriller Five Graves to Cairo (1943) is one of his greatest films. His use of shadowy hallways, striking dynamics between the British and Germans, and ...
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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.
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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Aug 11, 2020 · The great Billy Wilder’s second Hollywood film as a director was the twisting, serpentine war drama Five Graves to Cairo. Written by Wilder with long-term collaborator Charles Brackett, it’s a melting pot of narrative styles and variety of tones that shift like the desert sands against which the story takes place.
Five Graves to Cairo Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand. ... a smart, well-tuned World War II thriller with a terrific cast of...
Jun 6, 2012 · An impressive wartime espionage thriller, with Tone as a British corporal holed up in a Nazi-controlled hotel in the North African desert, and posing as a Germa.
Sep 28, 2020 · Billy Wilder’s Five Graves to Cairo begins in the wake of the Axis capture of Tobruk, with Corporal John J. Bramble (Franchot Tone), the lone survivor of an attack on his unit’s tank, stumbling through the Sahara Desert before arriving at the Empress of Britain.
