Five Graves to Cairo

Billy Wilder (director, screenwriter)
Charles Brackett (screenwriter)
Lajos Biro (play)
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff (starring)

Universal City: MCA / Universal, 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 re-release of the 1943 film, showing Akim Tamiroff, Franchot Tone, and Anne Baxter.

Based on Lajos Biro's 1917 play "Hotel Imperial: Szinmu negy felvonasban." During World War II, a British soldier passes himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered by Nazis, later becoming entrenched in a German spying scheme.

Set in north Africa, and shot on location in California and Arizona.

10 x 8 inches. Fine.


[Book #154464]