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Five Graves to Cairo

Screening on Film
Directed by Billy Wilder.
With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff.
US, 1943, 16mm, black & white, 96 min.

For his second American feature, Wilder crafted a wildly entertaining and suspenseful WWII thriller that is stretched taut as a garrote from its haunting opening sequence right up until the final credits. Five Graves to Cairo distills the Second World War into a fever pitched battle of wits, fought at dangerously close quarters, between British colonel Franchot Tone and Erich Von Stroheim’s luxuriously malevolent Field Marshal Rommel.

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