Five Graves to Cairo
Did a Woman Start the Rout of Rommel?
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$855 000
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$1 200 000
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Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova, Philip Ahlm, Roger Creed, Hans Moebus, Leslie Denison
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All actors and roles (10)
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Short description
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
What's left behind the scenes
- Cinematographer John F. Seitz (1892-1979) and director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) preliminarily reviewed a huge number of black and white photographs of the future filming locations to give the film as much authenticity as possible.
- The first choice for the female role was actress Ingrid Bergman.
- This spy thriller, based on the play (1943) by Lajos Biro (1880-1948), became a prototype for a real intelligence operation. Actor Miles Mander (1888-1946) so closely resembled British General Bernard L. Montgomery (1887-1976) that British intelligence even tried to recruit him and use him as Montgomery's double to mislead the Nazis. However, it turned out that Mander was noticeably taller than Montgomery, and the British found Australian comedian M.E. Clifton James (1898-1963), who was subsequently passed off as Montgomery. The disguised Montgomery specifically flew to Gibraltar to convince the Third Reich that the British would invade southern France before attacking northern France.
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