Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

1943 · 96 min · EN · NR · 7.0 (159 votes)
Dir. Billy Wilder · Starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova · Music Miklós Rózsa

“Did a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel?”

WarThrillerDrama

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

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A palpable sense of wartime dread permeates this desert outpost. Under the guise of a remote hotel, secrets and assumed identities create a suffocating atmosphere of suspicion and imminent danger. Every shadow feels like a threat.

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