Five Graves to Cairo

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Five Graves to Cairo

film by Wilder [1943]

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Billy Wilder
Films of the 1940s
Wilder and Brackett’s next project, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was a suspenseful tale of wartime espionage. It was followed by Double Indemnity (1944), one of the most searing of the early films noir and, in the eyes of many historians, the apotheosis of the genre. James M. Cain’s 1936…
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Wilder and Brackett’s next project, Five Graves to Cairo (1943), was a suspenseful tale of wartime espionage. It was followed by Double Indemnity (1944), one of the most searing of the early films noir and, in the eyes of many historians, the apotheosis of the genre. James M. Cain’s 1936…
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