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Five Graves to Cairo
Drama, Thriller, War
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy tightly constructed wartime suspense built around espionage, strategic reversals, and a resourceful underdog operating behind enemy lines.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- wartime deception, assumed identity, resistance, military strategy, occupation
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime, commandeered desert hotel and North African battlefield
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