- The sole Egyptian of note is Farid, the hotel keeper, played by a non-Egyptian actor as fretful comic relief; he exists to hide, feed, and serve the European principals while the war over his own country is fought entirely by others.
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
film
- Distributor
- PAR
- Cast
- Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim
- Production notes
- Co-W & D: Billy Wilder. Filmed twice before, first in 1927 and then in 1939 as Hotel Imperial