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Five Graves to CairoWilder's second film in America is a Second World War espionage drama that is both witty and tense. It concerns a British soldier (American Tone making no effort to change his accent) stranded in a desert town and hiding in a hotel that Field Marshal Rommell has taken over as his headquarters. Von Stroheim, a Viennese-born Jew like Wilder, is wonderful as the arrogant Rommell, first seen from the back, his creased neck bursting out of his high military collar. It was the first of five excellent screenplays, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), written by Brackett for Wilder.
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