Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
Synopsis:
A hotel in the African desert is the setting for a decisive bit of intrigue, when a corporal left behind by the retreating British comes close to penetrating Rommel's strategic plan for the taking of Cairo.
Review:
A neglected treasure; typically of Wilder, the serious dramatic base of the story, including the heroine's eventual death - no James Mason, this Rommel - is stimulatingly offset by the 'Ninotchka' elements: the singing Italian general (Tamiroff), the parasol business, and the second 'meeting', after enforced separation, of the lovers. Only the inevitable lapses into propaganda rhetoric on Tone's part appear irksome and embarrassing.
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
Synopsis:
A hotel in the African desert is the setting for a decisive bit of intrigue, when a corporal left behind by the retreating British comes close to penetrating Rommel's strategic plan for the taking of Cairo.
Review:
A neglected treasure; typically of Wilder, the serious dramatic base of the story, including the heroine's eventual death - no James Mason, this Rommel - is stimulatingly offset by the 'Ninotchka' elements: the singing Italian general (Tamiroff), the parasol business, and the second 'meeting', after enforced separation, of the lovers. Only the inevitable lapses into propaganda rhetoric on Tone's part appear irksome and embarrassing.
Country: US
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
Synopsis:
A hotel in the African desert is the setting for a decisive bit of intrigue, when a corporal left behind by the retreating British comes close to penetrating Rommel's strategic plan for the taking of Cairo.
Review:
A neglected treasure; typically of Wilder, the serious dramatic base of the story, including the heroine's eventual death - no James Mason, this Rommel - is stimulatingly offset by the 'Ninotchka' elements: the singing Italian general (Tamiroff), the parasol business, and the second 'meeting', after enforced separation, of the lovers. Only the inevitable lapses into propaganda rhetoric on Tone's part appear irksome and embarrassing.