Five Graves to Cairo [Les Cinq Secrets du Désert] 1943
DVDrip | XviD-1351 | ac3@448 | 672x368 | Audio: English | Sub: French idx/sub| DVD Cover | 1h32 | 1.2 Gb
Thriller, War | USA 1943 (Restored Version) | Director Billy WILDER
A British tank commander (Tone) survives a battle with Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in the North African desert. He finds sanctuary in a small desert hotel owned by Farid (Akim Tamiroff). The staff consists of just Mouche (Baxter), but is augmented by "Davos", the identity that Corporal John Bramble assumes. At first hostile and cynical, Mouche gradually falls in love with the newcomer. Complications arise when the Germans take over the hotel to use as headquarters for Field Marshal Rommel (Erich von Stroheim). Davos is mistaken by the Germans for one of their local spies and he makes use of this fortuitous mistake to steal some vital military information, the locations of the "Five Graves to Cairo", hidden buried fuel dumps prepared before the war for the conquest of Egypt. He takes that knowledge to the British, who use it to thwart Rommel's plans.