Directed by:
Billy WilderCinematography:
John F. SeitzComposer:
Miklós RózsaCast:
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Miles Mander, Peter van Eyck, Ian Keith, Fortunio Bonanova, Leslie Denison, Art Gilmore (more)Plots(1)
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 (a scene-stealing Erich von Stroheim) and his men arrive and take over the building as new headquarters. Bramble assumes the identity of a recently killed waiter...only to soon 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. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Franchot Tone
USA
Best movies:
Advise and Consent (1962)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Three Comrades (1938)
Anne Baxter
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
East of Eden (1981) (series)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Akim Tamiroff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Erich von Stroheim
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Greed (1924)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Miles Mander
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Madame Curie (1943)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Peter van Eyck
German Empire
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Ian Keith
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Big Trail (1930)
Fortunio Bonanova
Spain
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Leslie Denison
UK
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Court Jester (1955)
Art Gilmore
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
The Killing (1956) - narrator
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Frederick Giermann
German Empire
Best movies:
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Konstantin Shayne
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Vertigo (1958)
The Stranger (1946)
Bud Geary
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Fred Nurney
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
M (1931)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Otto Reichow
German Empire
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
The Young Lions (1958)
Silver River (1948)
Hans Moebus
Germany
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)