Five Graves to Cairo

Category: Movies •

Genre: Thriller • War •

Rating: 6.928

Director: Billy Wilder,

Writer: Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Charles Brackett (Screenplay),

Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova, Philip Ahlm, Roger Creed, Hans Moebus, Leslie Denison, Bud Geary, Frederick Giermann, Otto Reichow, Art Gilmore, Ian Keith, Miles Mander, Fred Nurney, Konstantin Shayne, Kenneth Anspach, John Erickson, Clyde Jackman, Bill Mussetter, Peter F.U. Pohlney, John Royce, Sam Waagenaar,

Language: en

Country: USA

Release Date: May 26, 1943

Plot: 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 is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.