Talk:Five Graves to Cairo

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Mksmith

Dudley Clarke saw the film in southern Italy and took from Stroheim's role as Rommel the idea of creating a double for Montgomery for use in Operation Fortitude, leading up to the Normandy invasion -- which they did, very successfully. This has been written up in several sources and ought to be included here. --Michael K SmithTalk 16:18, 4 April 2012 (UTC)Reply