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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
L.C. Moyzisch (book)
Michael Wilson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
22 February 1952 (USA) more
Tagline:
5 FINGERS...BEHIND THEM THE FABULOUS TRUE EXPLOITS OF THE HIGHEST PAID SPY IN HISTORY! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
James Mason and sadistic Pre-Connery elegant scoundrels more (26 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | James Mason | ... | Ulysses Diello |
 | Danielle Darrieux | ... | Countess Anna Staviska |
| Michael Rennie | ... | Colin Travers |
| Walter Hampden | ... | Sir Frederic Taylor |
| Oskar Karlweis | ... | L. C. Moyzisch |
| Herbert Berghof | ... | Col. von Richter |
 | John Wengraf | ... | Count Franz Von Papen |
| Ben Astar | ... | Siebert (as A. Ben Astar) |
| Roger Plowden | ... | Keith Macfadden |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Five Fingers
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Runtime:
108 min
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Language:
English | German | Portuguese | Turkish
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Australia:PG | West Germany:12 | Finland:K-11 (new rating: 2001) | Finland:K-12 (new visa: 1966) | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Spain:18
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Finnish censorship visa # 36107 delivered on 27-5-1952, renewed on 9-6-1966. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Foam in the Countess' beer while she talks with Count von Papen. more
Quotes:
Count Franz Von Papen:
I've often wondered, Countess - why did you leave Warsaw?
Countess Anna Staviska:
Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.
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Featured in De Bazna à Diello, de la réalité à la fiction (2004) (V) more
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This is one of the best roles of James Mason's career, and it's a long, distinguished one indeed, with more than its share of underrated masterpieces (Michael Powell's "Age of Consent") and overrated mediocrities (Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out) for film fans to dig through. This role is perfect for Mason because no one is better than he at playing elegant scoundrels that you can't help but admire for their craftiness. You root for this spy to double cross everybody all the way even though it might mean the allies losing WWII, etc. And the ending is wonderfully ambiguous and evily hilarious with Mason laughing his head off and not caring that he's personally in a very tight spot but thoroughly amused that the "Contessa" who tried to double-cross him had 'gotten hers.' One of the best written and acted American films of the '50s.