Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121831 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-04-10
• Formats: Import, PAL

Album Description
1943 classic directed by Billy Wilder and starring Franchot Tone (MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY) & Anne Baxter (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS). June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border: Corporal John Bramble. Finding refuge at a remote desert hotel-soon to be the German HQ-To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves.' And the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret...

Customer Reviews

GREAT WW2 Movie...!!!........Will NOT play on USA players..!!
Warning..!!....this is PAL format and will not play on US/Canada DVD players...otherwise, this is a highly entertaining WW2 movie set in North Africa. A British soldier/spy impersonates a waiter in a hotel that has been taken over by the Germans/Italians. He must discover the hidden ammo/fuel depots that Rommel has hidden in the desert (the "Five Graves"). Exciting spy drama and not to be missed...PLEASE Amazon find an NTSC/Region 1 copy of this DVD...!!!!!!!!

Five Graves to Cairo - Wilder's second step into greatness
If not one of his masterpieces, "Five Graves to Cairo" is a very entertaining outing from Billy Wilder. I am afraid to ruin the surprises that are thrown at you one after the other. You think that you are watching a escape film, and later one about spies, and later the suspense seeps in. It is worth watching for many reasons, and the acting of Erich von Stroheim is only the icing on the cake. Released in 1943, this is the best war propaganda film I saw from the American side of the battle. This film is not melodramatic, and doesn't contain a single anachronistic moment of unwanted sweetness. It works like, you know, a German watch.