Five Graves to Cairo
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Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 WWII film by Billy Wilder about a British soldier who, after escaping from a battle with the advancing Germans in Egypt, ends up in a hotel that is just preparing for the arrival of the Germans, where he ends up in the role of a double spy.
It is not so much a war movie as a mystery, in which the British soldier has to solve a puzzle that could stop the German advance.
Cast
- Franchot Tone - Corporal John Bramble / Davos
- Anne Baxter - Mouche
- Akim Tamiroff - Farid
- Erich von Stroheim - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Peter van Eyck - Lieutenant Schwegler
- Fortunio Bonanova - General Sebastiano
Trivia
The Germans are played by German actors and thus speak with the right accent, except for the actor who plays Rommel, who emigrated from Austria to the US at the age of 24 and whose accent occasionally slips. In this light it is surprising that the main character, a British soldier, is played by a US actor, who therefore consistently speaks with the wrong accent.
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