5 Fingers (1952)
- Starring:
- James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, (more)
- Director(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- James Mason - Diello, aka "Cicero"
- Michael Rennie - George Travers
- Herbert Berghof - Col. von Richter
- John Wengraf - Von Papen
- Martin Garralaga - Butler
- Michael Pate - Morrison
- Eghiche Harout - Man
- Keith McConnell - Johnson
- Stuart Hall - British Military Attache
- Lawrence Dobkin - Santos
- Antonio Filauri - Italian Ambassador
- Roger Plowden - MacFadden
- Richard Loo - Japanese Ambassador
- Lester Matthews - Under Secretary
- Leo Mostovoy - Spectator
- Ben A. Astar - Siebert
- Danielle Darrieux - Anna
- Oscar Karlweis - Moyzisch
- Walter Hampden - Sir Frederic
- Stanley Logan - MPs
- Marc Snow - Banker
- Ivan Triesault - Steuben
- Alberto Morin - Butler
- David Wolfe - Da Costa
- John Sutton - Narrator
- Otto Waldis - Pullman Porter
- Salvador Baguez - Ship's Captain
- Konstantin Shayne - Proprietor
- Nestor Paiva - Turkish Ambassador
- Faith Kruger - German Singer
- Hannelore Axman - Von Papen's Secretary
- Director(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Writer(s):
- Michael Wilson
- Producer(s):
- Otto Lang
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- 1952 - 5 Fingers - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Screenplay
