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Five Graves to Cairo (and all Billy Wilder films ranked)

Five Graves to Cairo (and all Billy Wilder films ranked)

1943

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Brett Alan Dewing
May 14, 2025
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This film was the last Billy Wilder movie I had yet to see. (I admit that the cover art probably was what put it at the bottom of my queue.) Made in 1943 by a Hungarian (Wilder) in Hollywood, certain things about it were...well, certain. It would be about the war, of course. It would portray the Germans as irredeemable and the Allies as brave. It would …

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