5 fingers
Five Fingers, feature film, triler, USA, 1952
DIRECTED BY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
CAST:
James Mason (Ulysses Diello / Cicero),
Danielle Darrieux (grofica Anna Staviska),
Michael Rennie (Colin Travers),
Herbert Berghof (poručnik von Richter),
Walter Hampden (Sir Frederic)
SCRIPT:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz,
Michael Wilson (based on book by L.C. Moyzisch)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Norbert Brodine
MUSIC:
Bernard Herrmann
EDITING:
James B. Clark
Synopsis:
This spy film is based on a true story about a man who lived during WW II. In 1944, Ulysses Diello is the personal butler of the English ambassador to Turkey. He is capable and well esteemed by his master, which puts him in a perfect position to illegally cash in on his job. Wanting more from life than to be a servant, Ulysses starts to sell secret documents to the Germans.
b/w, 108'