Cast
- Franchot Tone - Corporal John Bramble / Davos
- Anne Baxter - Mouche
- Akim Tamiroff - Farid
- Erich von Stroheim - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Peter van Eyck - Lieutenant Schwegler
- Fortunio Bonanova - General Sebastiano
Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Bramble was Cary Grant. Grant was repeatedly asked by Wilder to star in several of his films, but though the two were friends, Grant consistently refused.
The Germans are played by German actors and thus speak with the right accent, except for von Stroheim, who emigrated from Austria to the US at the age of 24 and whose accent occasionally slips. The British hero is played by an American actor who consistently speaks with the wrong accent.
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