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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 film directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, and Erich von Stroheim.June, 1942: Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Corps have launched an offensive that has sent the British into headlong retreat out of Libya and into Egypt. Cpl. John Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank hit in battle with Rommel, staggers delirious into the dusty desert hamlet of Sidi Halfaya, and into a hotel owned by avuncular Farid, and staffed by Mouche the maid (Baxter). Not much more than an hour or so later, the advancing Germans, including Erwin Rommel himself (von Stroheim), also arrive in town.In order to avoid capture and imprisonment, Bramble changes into civilian dress and assumes the identity of Davos, the hotel waiter, who was killed the night before in a German bombing raid. He soon learns that Davos the waiter was actually a German spy. He also learns that Rommel has five caches of fuel and supplies—the "five graves"—hidden in the Egyptian desert, supplies that he badly needs in order to keep advancing and capture Cairo. Bramble thus has to figure out where the German supply dumps are, while preventing the Germans from figuring out who he is before they smuggle him back into the Allied lines.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Billy Wilder was a great admirer of the films Erich von Stroheim directed during the 1920s. Seven years later, he used von Stroheim again in Sunset Boulevard.Notable for being the only screen depiction of Rommel made before the death of the real one in October 1944. | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Bramble makes it back to the Allied lines, gets promoted to lieutenant, and leads a tank in Montgomery's counterattack which sends Rommel reeling back out of Egypt, ending any threat to Cairo and the Suez Canal. But Mouche was executed by the Germans right after Bramble left. | |
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Dead Foot Leadfoot: The film opens with a single British tank aimlessly trundling across the desert. The reason it is aimlessly trundling is that four of the five crewmen have been overcome by carbon monoxide after the tank's exhaust was damaged in combat, including the tank driver, slumped dead against the controls. Cpl. Bramble makes it out Just in Time. | |
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