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5 Fingers (1952)

5 Fingers (1952)

This is a terrific little spy thriller – set in Turkey during World War II – starring James Mason as a British embassy manservant (of the ambassador) that wants so desperately to become a gentleman a man of means that he commits espionage by selling top & most secret documents to the Germans. It’s based on a true story chronicled in the L.C. Moyzisch book Operation Cicero. Its director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve (1950)) and screenwriter Michael Wilson (A Place in the Sun (1951)) received Academy Award nominations.

Mason plays Ulysses Diello a wannabe gentleman that woes displaced Polish Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux) to help him. Michael Rennie plays Colin Travers the Britain who discovers that someone in Germany is getting inside information and becomes most concerned when Overlord – the British code word for the D-Day invasion – appears in some intercepted Nazi transmissions. Diello had contacted the Germans directly in Turkey; his ‘handler’ is L.C. Moyzisch (the book’s author) played by Oskar Karlweis. Walter Hampden plays the unawares ambassador Sir Frederic Taylor who’d hired Diello after receiving a recommendation from the Countess but before she’d been wooed into service by her former employee. Herbert Berghof plays the SS Colonel von Richter who insists on giving Diello the code name Cicero. After the obligatory chase in the neutral country – where both the British and German agents in pursuit are hampered by the local authorities’ regulations – there’s an excellent denouement.

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