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Billy Wilder’s Five Graves to Cairo is coming to Blu-ray

June 15, 2020 - Staff@seenituk

Five Graves to Cairo, Billy Wilder’s riveting World War II spy thriller, is making its UK debut on Blu-ray on 17 August 2020 as part of Eureka Entertainment’s The Masters of Cinemas Series.

Pre-order from Amazon.co.uk*

Only the second Hollywood film directed by Billy Wilder, Five Graves to Cairo is an underrated early gem from the filmmaker who would go on to ascend to the industry’s highest ranks. 

The film demonstrates that Wilder and screenwriter Charles Brackett—who would collaborate on thirteen films, winning screenplay Oscars for The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard—were already working at the peak of their powers, delivering an espionage yarn that never lets up on the suspense.

The only survivor in his unit after a battle with Rommel’s soldiers in North Africa, British Corporal Bramble (Franchot Tone) staggers through the desert until arriving at the largely deserted Empress of Britain hotel, staffed only by owner Farid (Akim Tamiroff) and his French employee Mouche (Anne Baxter). 

While Bramble hopes to hide there, the hotel doesn’t remain deserted for long – Rommel (in a scene-stealing Erich von Stroheim) and his men arrive and take over the building as new headquarters. 

Bramble disguises himself as a recently killed waiter…only to discover that this waiter was also serving as a German spy, a role Bramble now has to adopt for his own survival. 

And while Mouche knows Bramble’s true identity, she has her own reasons for not wanting to aid in his plot.

Special Features:

  • 1080p presentation on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from a brand new 4K restoration
  • Uncompressed LPCM audio (original mono presentation)
  • Audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin
  • Billy Wilder on Five Graves to Cairo
  • “Five Graves to Cairo” episode ofLux Radio Theatre, originally aired in 1943, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter
  • Theatrical trailer
  • A collector’s booklet featuring new writing by critic Richard Combs; and an archival article from 1944 about Wilder and Charles Brackett

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