Franchot Tone

Anne Baxter

Akim Tamiroff

Erich von Stroheim

Peter van Eyck

Fortunio Bonanova

Philip Ahlm

Roger Creed

Hans Moebus

Leslie Denison

Bud Geary

Frederick Giermann

Otto Reichow

Art Gilmore

Ian Keith

Miles Mander

Fred Nurney

Konstantin Shayne

Kenneth Anspach

John Erickson

Clyde Jackman

Bill Mussetter

Peter F.U. Pohlney

John Royce

Sam Waagenaar

Buddy G. DeSylva

Bertram C. Granger

Doane Harrison

Miklós Rózsa

Hans Dreier

Charles Brackett

Billy Wilder

Ernst Fegté

Edith Head

John F. Seitz

Sam Comer

Henry S. Kesler

Wally Westmore

Charles C. Coleman

Herbert Coleman

Ben Nye

Albert MacQuarrie

Leonora Sabine

Eugene Zador

Sidney Street

Hugh Brown

Haskell B. Boggs

Gordon Carveth

William Knight

Philip Wisdom

Ferrol Redd

Harlow Stengel

Norman Lacey

Lajos Biró

Thriller

Drama

Five Graves to Cairo

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

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We shall take that big fat cigar out of Mr. Churchill's mouth and make him say Heil. 

Five Graves to Cairo is directed by Billy Wilder who also co-adapts the screenplay with Charles Brackett. It's based on the Lajos Biró play Hotel Imperial. It stars Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim and Peter Van Eyck. Music is by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography by John Seitz.

Tone plays John Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank division who stumbles into a near deserted desert town only to find it suddenly fills up with Field Marshall Rommel and his troops. Assuming the identity of a dead waiter at the hotel run by Farid (Tamiroff), Bramble gains the trust of everyone only to learn that the waiter he is pretending to be was actually a secret agent for the Germans. If he can keep up the pretence and not get found out, Bramble could have great impact on the North Africa Campaign.

A cracker is this, an early Billy Wilder film that thrives on tension and clever plotting while pulsing with a great literate strength. Cast are more than capable of making the material work as well, with Tone nicely restrained, Baxter very touching (decent French accent too) and Von Stroheim a ball of emotions as a complex laden Rommel. Tech credits are grade "A" stuff, the sound department and Seitz's photography especially lifting the picture still further to classic status. 

This is no high energy war movie, it's character driven but all the better for it, with Wilder even slotting in moments of humour to sit alongside the sharper edges of the dialogue. From the sombre opening of a tank aimlessly trudging across the desert - the pilot hanging dead from the turret - to a very touching finale involving a parasol, Wilder's movie holds the attention greatly throughout. A masterful story brought to us by a master director. 8/10

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