This week, we discuss the intense World War II spy thriller, Five Graves to Cairo, set in the desolate landscape of North Africa during the height of the desert campaign.
SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety, including the details of the central German operation. If you plan on watching it, we strongly suggest you do so before listening to our takes.
A Paramount Pictures production. Released on May 13, 1943. Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, based on the play Hotel Imperial by Lajos Biro. Starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, and Erich von Stroheim (as Field Marshal Rommel). Cinematography by John F. Seitz. Edited by Doane Harrison. Music by Miklós Rózsa.
