Review of Five Graves to Cairo

You need to remember that for a certain period almost every film out of Hollywood was either about the war or about something that took place with the war as a backdrop. In that context, this film -- directed by Billy Wilder, who would become a legend in later years -- is one of the best of the genre. It is not merely about the war in North Africa, it is not merely about what it is like having to fight against the Nazi machine, it is not merely about being a spy for the "good guys", there is a secondary plot arc about maps and secret caches of materiel which I prefer not to give away. Of the many films of this type done in this period, one of best. Entertaining, and a little piece of history, to boot.