Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Akim Tamiroff, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim, Fortunio Bonanova, Franchot Tone, Peter van Eyck, Philip Ahlm, Roger Creed

Synopsis:

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel’s owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.