Five Graves To Cairo / Foreign Affair

Five Graves To Cairo

The wartime espionage thriller FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter, marks Billy Wilder's second directorial effort. John J. Bramble Tone), the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner (Akim Tamiroff) and a French hambermaid (Baxter) who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel (Erich Von Stroheim) and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts o infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.

Foreign Affair

Starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich, a FOREIGN AFFAIR is a cynical satire that mirrors the bewildering moral climate of the late 1940s. Phoebe Frost Arthur), an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an army captain (John Lund) in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer Dietrich) who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 8 maj, 2022