SOURCES: The only other employee is the French chambermaid Mouche, as the cook fled with the British and the waiter Davos was killed the night before by German bombing. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy felvonásban, including the 1927 film Hotel Imperial. Lieutenant Schwegler, - The meaning and relevance of the film's title "Five Graves to Cairo" is that it refers to five buried fuel and supplies dumps (the secret location of which was identifiable from each letter of the word Egypt in a map of the same) which were secretly established prior to World War II … When Farid uncovers a 1930s newspaper article about German archaeological excavations, John recognizes a photograph of Rommel, and realizes that instead of excavating ancient sites, the Germans were burying supplies. Set in World War II, it is one of a number of films based on Lajos Bíró's 1917 play Hotel Imperial: Színmű négy felvonásban, including the 1927 film Hotel Imperial. by Frank Miller Billy Wilder had the most deliciously dirty mind in Hollywood. As it turns out, Mouche's motives are not mercenary; she pleads with Rommel to release her wounded soldier brother from a concentration camp. Discover Five Graves to Cairo as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J. Carroll Naish. The name stuck. Today, the film is a risque farce with great performances by Dean Martin and Kim Novak. He pretends to help her, showing her fake telegrams to and from Germany. Whereas the real Rommel always dressed casually in loose-fitting uniforms, von Stroheim insisted on wearing "a uniform as it is supposed to be worn." Bramble privately explains who he is and what he plans to do. The victorious Rommel and his Afrika Korps were pounding the British back and back toward Cairo and the Suez Canal." He will be sorely missed. Billy was as restless as his namesake and left law school to become a journalist. Tobruk had fallen. Five Graves to Cairo Although Billy Wilder cast two actors who had studied the Stanislavsky system to play the leads in the 1943 World War II drama Five Graves to Cairo , it was an actor who had learned on the job while creating his own personal mythology who gave them all a lesson in acting. Once in Hollywood, Wilder and roommate Peter Lorre had to learn English quickly if they wanted to join the American film industry. Bramble listens with interest. More often than not, Wilder liked pointing his finger at the hyprocrisy of people's sexual mores. They finally released a remake in 1939 with Isa Miranda and Ray Milland. With a broken heart, John places the parasol by her grave and, after paying tribute, rejoins his troops. Cast & Crew. Writers: Charles … Stroheim by Arthur Lennig By the end of the decade, Wilder dared even to paint a portrait of Hollywood stardom gone awry in Sunset Boulevard (1950). A British corporal (Franchot Tone) poses as a Nazi spy in a hotel with Rommel (Erich von Stroheim). Together the German expatriates learned the language and began staking their territory in the Dream Factory. Music: Miklos Rozsa Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. An air raid ensues and Schwegler finds John in the room. The struggling filmmaker struck up a friendship with the 93-year old veteran and found a friend and a mentor. From the conversation and later remarks by Rommel, he eventually deduces that the field marshal, disguised as an archeologist before the war, had secretly prepared five hidden supply dumps, the "Five Graves to Cairo", for the conquest of Egypt. Given the name Samuel, Wilder's mother called her son 'Billy' in honor of Buffalo Bill Cody. The British troops return to Sidi Halfaya in November, and take German and Italian troops prisoner. His performance renewed interest in his work, at least as a character actor, and led to another villainous Nazi role in producer Sam Goldwyn's The North Star (1943). John successfully impersonates the waiter, and manages to hides his surprise when he is given a personal audience with Rommel because the waiter was actually a Nazi spy. Bramble assumes the identity of Davos to save himself. From sarcastic and cynical social commentary to outrageous sex farce, Wilder pushed his audiences to look at their own values and morals. It was filmed at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, with some exteriors of Sidi Halfaya (a fictionalized version of Sidi Barrani) shot on location at the Salton Sea and other exteriors filmed at Camp Young at the Army Desert Training Center, Indio, California, where, with the cooperation of the Army Ground Forces, a battle sequence was staged, and in Yuma, Arizona. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, perhaps the most widely known German general of World War II, was popularly known as the "Desert Fox" after he took command of the Afrika Korps in 1941 and led his troops to decisive victories in North Africa. Schwegler's body is soon found, and Rommel accuses her of killing his aide when she discovered he was lying about being able to release her brother. When Wilder needed someone to play Max, the one-time directing genius in Sunset Boulevard (1950), von Stroheim was the only possible actor for the role. Wilder was all too happy to entertain ideas from his idol. The struggling filmmaker struck up a friendship with the 93-year old veteran and found a friend and a mentor. He followed this cinematic triumph with a risky project, the story of an alcoholic on a three-day binge. The officer orders him to use his position of trust to instead gather military intelligence. The director dug into racy, controversial subjects with cynical wit and rare candor; he set new standards for film noir, sex comedies and the buddy film and his movies continue to inspire new generations of filmmakers. He is unmoved, but his aide, Lieutenant Schwegler, is more appreciative of her charms. The British were badly beaten, but turned things around six months later at El Alamein. After Hitler's rise to power in 1934, Wilder fled his homeland. Erich von Stroheim portrays Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in a supporting performance. Bramble's information allows the British to blow up the dumps and thus thwart Rommel's plans, culminating in the Second Battle of El Alamein. Audiences ignored it. (10 reels), Although Billy Wilder cast two actors who had studied the Stanislavsky system to play the leads in the 1943 World War II drama Five Graves to Cairo, it was an actor who had learned on the job while creating his own personal mythology who gave them all a lesson in acting. Erich von Stroheim may have looked nothing like his real life character, Field Marshall Rommel, but he turned in a richly detailed performance that, at least briefly, put him back on top of the Hollywood heap as "The Man You Love to Hate." Film Details. Clarke located a look-alike, pre-war actor Lieutenant M. E. Clifton James, and had him study Montgomery's appearance and mannerisms. The following written foreword opens the film: "In June 1942 things looked black indeed for the British Eighth Army. At the time Paramount offered him the role, he was touring as Jonathan Brewster, the murderous brother in Arsenic and Old Lace. A character-driven puzzle box of a film (the title itself being a key component), its satisfaction granted by Wilder and Brackett is of the rare transcendent variety. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) BDRip | MKV | 1280x720 | English | H264 @ 2560 kbps | AC-3 @ 192 kbps | 1 h 36 min | 1.86 GiB Subtitles: English Genre: Thriller, War The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. To which von Stroheim said, "Twenty." While grinding out articles for a Berlin newspaper, Wilder joined with future film directors Fred Zinnemann, Robert Sidomak and Edgar G. Ulmer to make a short film, Menschen Am Sonntag (1929). "Academy Awards Search: Five Graves to Cairo", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "Quentin Tarantino's handwritten list of the 11 greatest films of all time", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Five_Graves_to_Cairo&oldid=1003571615, Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 January 2021, at 16:52. He learns that he is to be sent to Cairo next. The 1943 movie Five Graves to Cairo, directed by Billy Wilder, was the only wartime movie that featured a German general as a major character. Boy, what a nasty Hun! She despises the British, believing they abandoned the French, including her two brothers, at Dunkirk. Bramble leaves for Cairo, but arranges for Farid to present evidence the next day at Mouche's trial that "Davos" committed the crime. Art Direction: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte Schwegler believes John's explanation that he was trying to save the maps until they are in the cellar and a blast uncovers the body of the real waiter. When Mouche finds out, she threatens to unmask him. In 1966 Wilder brought together the dynamic combination of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau with THE FORTUNE COOKIE. Cast: Franchot Tone (John J. Bramble), Anne Baxter (Mouche), Akim Tamiroff (Farid), Erich von Stroheim (Field Marshal Rommel), Peter Van Eyck (Lt. Schwegler), Fortunio Bonanova (Gen. Sebastiano), Konstantin Shayne (Maj. By the mid-1930s, he had written seven scenarios and even tried his hand at directing. Five Graves to Cairo Brief Synopsis. He was an outsider who wasn't afraid to point out the follies of his fellow man or the worst aspects of American culture. In THE APARTMENT(1960), Wilder took an incisive look at corrupt businessmen exploiting their employees for sexual favors. Today, the film is a risque farce with great performances by Dean Martin and Kim Novak. She goes along with his impersonation until she hears his plans to kill Rommel, because she wants to approach Rommel and plead for the life of her sole surviving brother, an amputee who has been interred in a concentration camp. Movie Title: Five Graves to Cairo Year: 1943. Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. Rommel has been the subject of numerous books and been a character in many films, the most famous of which was the 1951 Twentieth Century-Fox film The Desert Fox, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Mason as Rommel. In IRMA LA DOUCE (1963), the world of a Parisian prostitute was lovingly painted in Technicolor tones. Von Stroheim had gotten permission from Paramount to design his own costume and makeup for the film. But it was von Stroheim who got the most out of Five Graves to Cairo. When Wilder questioned his wanting film in the camera when it would never be seen, he shot back, "An audience always senses whether a prop is genuine or false." Baxter had also trained in the Stanislavsky system, working with his former student Maria Ouspenskaya in New York. In THE APARTMENT(1960), Wilder took an incisive look at corrupt businessmen exploiting their employees for sexual favors. Your problem, I guess, was that you were ten years ahead of your time." The owner of the hotel helps him, despite protest against the chambermaid, fearful of the arrival of Rommel and the Germans. From sarcastic and cynical social commentary to outrageous sex farce, Wilder pushed his audiences to look at their own values and morals. Three of his eight Best Director nominations also came during this period. Five Graves to Cairo Idea of making Field Marshal Rommel's campaign into an exciting fable is by Lajos Biro, Hungarian writer, who did so many successful Ernst Lubitsch screen hits. In IRMA LA DOUCE (1963), the world of a Parisian prostitute was lovingly painted in Technicolor tones. Erich von Stroheim portrays Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in a supporting performance. Lajos Biro's play was first filmed by Paramount in 1927 and 1939 under the title Hotel Imperial. By the end of the decade, Wilder dared even to paint a portrait of Hollywood stardom gone awry in Sunset Boulevard (1950). John successfully reaches the British command, and on 1 July 1942, British forces destroy the German supply depots in El Alamein, and Rommel's troops never reach Cairo. After wandering through the desert, Bramble finds a remote hotel. As a filmmaker, Wilder was well acquainted with the shadowy, brooding style of German Expressionism. Paramount borrowed Anne Baxter from Twentieth Century-Fox. At the luncheon, Rommel teases his guests, allowing them to ask him twenty questions about his future plans. Rommel's key strategy is preparation, and he reveals that in the 1930s, the Germans buried supplies all over Egypt in anticipation of the war. By the end of the '50s, as censorship guidelines were easing, Wilder's projects became even more daring. Screenplay: Brackett, Wilder Free trial available! Their conversations were recently chronicled in a book by Cameron Crowe entitled Conversations with Wilder(published by Knoft). Only the second Hollywood film directed by Billy Wilder, the riveting World War II spy thriller FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO is an underrated early gem from the filmmaker, who would ascend to the industry's highest ranks with his next project, DOUBLE INDEMNITY. The film is available on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps capture Tobruk in June 1942 and pursue the British into Egypt. Although Ingrid Bergman had been first choice for the role, Wilder was delighted with Baxter's performance, which helped the newcomer's visibility in Hollywood. Billy Wilder claimed the American Dream; he was successfully playing by his own rules. As the British officers leave, the colonel subtly relays to John that his mission is to determine the locations of the supply depots and send word to the British command. Rommel has no interest in helping Mouche, however, so she turns to Schwegler, who promises to help her in exchange for sexual favors. The 1917 play was set in a border town between Poland and the Ukraine during World War I, and told of an Austrian officer trapped behind Russian lines who takes the place of a dead waiter only to discover the man is a spy. Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 war film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. Each of these films is an undisputed classic today, but even at the time, his films were lauded. After Hitler's rise to power in 1934, Wilder fled his homeland. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) directed by Billy Wilder • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. Experiencing a change of heart, Mouche accepts the blame, thereby freeing John to carry out his mission to Cairo. The final piece of the puzzle (their locations) falls into place when Bramble realizes that Rommel's cryptic references to points Y, P, and T refer to the precise locations of the letters of the word "Egypt" printed on his map. Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegté and Bertram C. Granger were nominated for Best Art Direction, John F. Seitz for Best Cinematography, and Doane Harrison for Best Film Editing.[5]. In June, 1942, in Egypt, the British Eighth Army is severely beaten by General Rommel's Afrika Korps. Two Hollywood films dramatizing the British defeat were filmed within a year of the actual event: For the actor's first appearance, Wilder had him shot from the back of the neck until the scene was established, later arguing that "Standing with his stiff fat neck in the foreground he could express more than almost any actor with his face." John revives and, with his wits fully restored, dons the clothing of a clubfooted hotel waiter who was killed in the cellar during an air raid. ‘Five Graves to Cairo’, depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Tobruk in North Africa during World War II (June, 1942). The wartime espionage thriller FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter, marks Billy Wilder's second directorial effort. In September, John purchases a parasol in Cairo that Mouche had longed for, and carries it with him in his tank when British General Montgomery's Eighth Army makes its counter-offensive. Sex was central to Wilder's world and Hollywood celebrated his candor. John learns from Farid that although Mouche was found innocent of Schwegler's murder, the Germans found her guilty of deception, and beat her to death as she cried, "The British will be back." Sex was central to Wilder's world and Hollywood celebrated his candor. He brought these two gifts together to create a landmark film noir - DOUBLE INDEMNITY(1944). Farid hides the unconscious Bramble when the swiftly advancing Germans take over the hotel to use as headquarters for Field Marshal Rommel and his staff. By the end of the '50s, as censorship guidelines were easing, Wilder's projects became even more daring. Audiences ignored it. Though the ruse did not appear to have any significant impact on German plans, the events of Operation Copperhead were in turn dramatized in a book and a movie, both entitled I Was Monty's Double. Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. German lieutenant Schwegler informs Farid that his officers will use the hotel as their headquarters, and installs Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel in the best room in the hotel, and an Italian general named Sebastiano, in the worst. He gave notice with great relief and began sending Wilder script suggestions. Grant was repeatedly asked by Wilder to star in several of his films, but though the two were friends, Grant consistently refused. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review. Field Marshal Rommel. In 1951, United Artists released Hotel Sahara, which also was based on the Biro play and was directed by Ken Annakin and starring Yvonne DeCarlo. However, Paramount instead borrowed Anne Baxter from Twentieth Century-Fox. Director and stars teamed again for The Front Page (1974), a remake of the newspaper classic; and Buddy, Buddy (1981), the story of an assassin and a sad sack ready to commit suicide. Billy was as restless as his namesake and left law school to become a journalist. Billy Wilder might have been born in Vienna, but American culture influenced him from the earliest days. Billy Wilder had the most deliciously dirty mind in Hollywood. Like much of Wilder’s finest work, Five Graves to Cairo lives and breathes in both its own time and for all audiences going forward. Given the name Samuel, Wilder's mother called her son 'Billy' in honor of Buffalo Bill Cody. When some captured British officers are brought to the hotel for a luncheon with Rommel, one of them (a past guest) realizes that Davos has been replaced. Not wanting trouble, Mouche steals the pistol and waits on Rommel herself. Cameron Crowe, screenwriter and director of contemporary hit films such as Jerry Maguire(1996), was one of those moved by Wilder's film sense. A British corporal goes undercover to infiltrate Field Marshall Rommel's command. With the exception of an impressively staged opening in which a runaway tank careens over the dunes, the film has the tight, controlled mise en scene of its theatrical source. Producer: Charles Brackett Searching through properties the studio already owned, he spotted powerful possibilities in Hotel Imperial, a play by Hungarian playwright Lajos Biro, who had written some of the most successful films of Wilder's idol, Ernst Lubitsch. John already knows that the term "Five Graves" is the code word for the supply depots, and is led directly to the information when Rommel, still believing that John is a Nazi spy, shows him a map of Egypt, stating that the locations are so basic, he does not even need invisible ink. 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