Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on DVDs & Blu-ray Discs, Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like, {"modules":["unloadOptimization","bandwidthDetection"],"unloadOptimization":{"browsers":{"Firefox":true,"Chrome":true}},"bandwidthDetection":{"url":"https://ir.ebaystatic.com/cr/v/c1/thirtysevens.jpg","maxViews":4,"imgSize":37,"expiry":300000,"timeout":250}}. What he finds is the Empress of Britain Hotel in the Libyan border town of Sidi Halfaya. When he speaks English in the film it is with hardly a German accent. Sitemap |. WWII fantasy telling how a British corporal outfoxed The Desert Fox into revealing the location of hidden German supplies. It is a movie to put on when you need to leave the room. Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2020. Mouche is unsympathetic toward the plight of any Englishman. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 .
Something went wrong. Normal guy gets thrust into a position where he's only one that can save the British offensive in WWII- and he does it! It was a fairly beat-up print without English subtitles. Price Match Guarantee. 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. Mason's Rommel is about the best Rommel one can expect except when Rommel is played by a German actor (other than Stroheim). -- See DVDBeaver's Review... an early Billy Wilder film that thrives on tension and clever plotting while pulsing with great literate strength, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2015, A cracker is this, an early Billy Wilder film that thrives on tension and clever plotting while pulsing with great literate strength. A club-footed waiter thought to have been killed in an air-raid suddenly appears, claiming to have spent eight hours digging himself out of the rubble in the basement. Akim Tamiroff steals the show as the hotel owner. All prices are in USD. Something for everyone: spy action thriller with battle sequences and a mystery! These DVD’s will play on any DVD player anywhere in the world (Region Free).Ships in 24hrs. Unable to add item to List. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It has a little something for all tastes. Shop Five Graves To Cairo (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray [2020]. along with the Mata Hari type played by Anne Baxter. Looks like Universal probably told Eureka they had a 4k master but there was some confusion as to the timing of it being ready, and either “accidentally” delivered the older master because they didn’t have the new one yet, or by the time Eureka realized they had the old master, they didn’t want to delay their release or change the info. When the body of the real Davoss starts to emerge from the rubble in the Empress' basement, it becomes Mouche's fate to make the ultimate decision between saving one brother and saving many. Please try again. The serious tone of the film combined with the hopeless characters make this movie a not very enjoyable farce. + introduction by Ben Mankiewicz (1 minute, 48 seconds) + assortment of posters and lobby cards + text-only introduction from the TCM website. The tone of the film, as something between war film and an espionage thriller, is quite serious, but the characters are not believable. Title: Five Graves to Cairo. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. It's a World War II drama with some laughs (but definitely not a comedy), which builds up great suspense, and contains more than a few twists and turns. This is the price (excluding shipping and handling fees) a seller has provided at which the same item, or one that is nearly identical to it, is being offered for sale or has been offered for sale in the recent past. Is she or isn't she a spy, and for which side? It is, to me, a classic. The War of the Worlds (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. While Rommel undoubtedly enjoyed the finer things in life he was hardly a breakfast in bed in the middle of the desert type, as he is portrayed in the film. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists.
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She feels the British had abandoned the French Army at Dunkirk, where one of her brothers was killed and another was captured. We promise to never spam you, and just use your email address to identify you as a valid customer. Franchot Tone bumbles through the film (this happened then this happened, etc.) Format: DVD. 9 out10, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2018. The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable).Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag.See details for additional description. It has lost none of it's excitement and drama. What should have been an easily great performance of Rommel by Stroheim is a catastrophe. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. BTC is accepted. An interesting movie for the period with a promising beginning, but ultimately too many plot holes for me. DVDBeaver's Review states: .."Looks like Eureka didn’t get the 4k Master that Kino produced. When I found it listed I had to have it. --New York Times More items to explore. This 1943 film was only the second outing for master film-maker Billy Wilder (and his second with regular co-screenwriter Charles Brackett), but Five Graves To Cairo already demonstrates the director’s perceptive eye for cinematic detail and his unerring feel for an engaging bitter-sweet narrative. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2015. A masterful story brought to us by a master director. The film also seemed to lack tension somehow. No 4K Scan as Advertised from Eureka/Masters of Cinema! Five Graves to Cairo (1943) DVD. Whereabouts was he buried? To those of us who know or are old enough to remember, Miklos Rozsa's victory montage near the end, starting with Mouche theme followed by the skirl of a bagpipe, still packs a wallop. For the 2020 holiday season, returnable items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2021. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Five Graves to Cairo (DVD, 2014) at the best online prices at eBay! Compared to TCM's DVD, this KL blu ray has a sharper (standard setting) and somewhat steadier image, and features English subtitles and a commentary track that is rich in tidbits (often sad) on Billy Wilder's life and career. The only decent, and at least halfway believable character in the entire film is Akim Tamiroff as Farid, the Arab hotel owner - "we have the best bedbugs in Egypt" is undoubtedly the best line of the film. The method of exchange of "classified information" is to similar to "Dark Journey" made six years earlier a higher quality movie, better plot and character development, Purchase this instead.
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