| Classification |
791.435 FIV |
| Title |
Five graves to Cairo [DVD] / directed by Billy Wilder ; producer Charles Brackett. |
| Publication Details |
Universal City, CA : Madman (distributor), c2006. |
| Physical Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in + |
| Series |
Directors suite |
| Note |
Based on a play by Lajos Biro titled: Hotel Imperial. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. |
| DVD MMA2526 |
| Credits Note |
Director of photography, John F. Seitz; editor, Doane Harrison; music, Miklos Rozsa |
| Performer/Cast Note |
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim. |
| Summary Note |
World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant. Soon, General Rommel makes the inn his General Staff headquarters. Now, with the threat of discovery hanging over his head, the spy learns that the identity he has claimed owes a debt to the Nazis -- and they expect him to pay up. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Rommel, Erwin, -- 1891-1944 -- Drama |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Spies -- Great Britain -- Drama. |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North -- Drama |
| Films for the hearing impaired |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 |
| Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969 |
| Tone, Franchot |
| Tamiroff, Akim, 1899-1972 |
| Baxter, Anne |
| Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957 |
| Biro, Lajos, 1880-1948 Hotel Imperial. |
