FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO

Original British 17 inch x 11 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1943 Billy Wilder World War II Spy Thriller FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, based on the play by Lajos Biro and starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Peter Van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova and Miles Mander.

During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold 2 staple holes and minor scuffing along it.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.