Five Fingers (1952) ( 5 Fingers )

Five Fingers (1952) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: 5 Fingers
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written By:
L.C. Moyzisch
Michael Wilson

Actors:
James Mason ..... Ulysses Diello (Code Name: Cicero)
Danielle Darrieux ..... Countess Anna Staviska
Michael Rennie ..... Colin Travers
Walter Hampden ..... Sir Frederic
Oskar Karlweis ..... L. C. Moyzisch
Herbert Berghof ..... Col. von Richter
John Wengraf ..... Count Von Papen
Ben Astar ..... Siebert (as A. Ben Astar)
Roger Plowden ..... Macfadden

Synopsis:

Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of the British ambassador to Ankara during World War II, Cicero is actually a Nazi agent. He holds no particular political viewpoint: the Nazis offered the best price, so for the time being he is loyal to them. Falling in love with the beautiful Danielle Darrieux, Cicero uses her home as a contact point to meet his German associates. At great personal risk, Cicero secures secret British war files and smuggles them to the Germans; they find the information in the files too far-fetched to be taken seriously--and thus are caught unawares on the morning of the D-Day invasion. An ironic coda finds Cicero, setting himself up in luxury in Rio de Janeiro, double-crossed by both Darrieux and the Germans. What else can he do but laugh uproariously? 5 Fingers, based on the memoirs of the real-life 'Cicero' L. C. Moyzisch, was adapted into a 1959 TV series, wherein the antihero was converted into a 100% good guy.

During WWII the valet to the English Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

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