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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Lajos Biró (play) and
Charles Brackett (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 May 1943 (USA) more
Tagline:
Did a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel?
Plot:
The fate of Cairo is in the hands of a British corporal undercover in Rommel's headquarters. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. more
User Comments:
Ahead of its time more (23 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Franchot Tone | ... | Cpl. John J. Bramble / Davos | |
| Anne Baxter | ... | Mouche | |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Farid | |
| Erich von Stroheim | ... | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | |
| Peter van Eyck | ... | Lt. Schwegler (as Peter Van Eyck) | |
| Fortunio Bonanova | ... | Gen. Sebastiano |
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Runtime:
96 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | USA:Approved (certificate #9090) | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:15
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Trivia:
Billy Wilder wanted the role of Cpl. John J. Bramble/Davos (ultimately played by 'Franchot Tone') to be played by Cary Grant, but Grant was unavailable. more
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Continuity: When Bramble walks/runs into the town his shadow is behind him, then in front, then again behind him. more
Quotes:
Lt. Schwegler: Our complaints are brief. We make them against the nearest wall. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Shadows of Suspense (2006) (V) more
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Billy Wilder was one of the best directors of his era, so it's no surprise that, in spite of a certain amount of wartime propaganda, 'Five Graves to Cairo' has a fizzy plot, a strain of black humour and a lightness of touch that sets it apart from the majority of films made at this time. It's also interesting as a film made while the war was still going on: far from demonising the enemy, it provides a generous portrait of Rommel, an unpleasant but human German army and a comedy Italian general for light relief. The plot also features a cynical Frenchwoman and a slightly racist realisation of an Egyptian: in some ways it's surprising to see how little this almost-fresh picture differs from those made later (if anything, since we discovered Auschwitz, it's been harder to make a film that shows that humanises the Nazis). 'Five Graves to Cairo' isn't Citizen Kane, and of course today this sort of thing would be done with much more violence, sex, and swearing: but that's a kind of recommendation in itself.