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
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
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Short description
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.
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 lead was actress Ingrid Bergman.
- The first choice for the female role was actress Ingrid Bergman.
- Cinematographer John F. Seitz (1892-1979) and director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) reviewed a vast number of black-and-white photographs of the future filming locations in advance to give the film as much authenticity as possible.
- 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.
- This spy thriller, based on a 1943 play by Lajos Biró (1880-1948), served as a prototype for a real intelligence operation. Actor Miles Mander (1888-1946) bore such a striking resemblance to British General Bernard L. Montgomery (1887-1976) that British intelligence even attempted to recruit him to serve as Montgomery's double to mislead the Nazis. As it turned out, Mander was noticeably taller than Montgomery, and the British instead found Australian comedian M.E. Clifton James (1898-1963), who subsequently posed as Montgomery. The decoy 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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