5 Fingers

IMDb link: 0044314
IMDb rating: 7.6 (6,084 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: James Mason, Michael Rennie, Danielle Darrieux, Walter Hampden and others

Release date: 7 Mar 1952
Release year: 1952
Runtime: 108 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: espionage, counterfeit money, neutrality, top secret, voice over narration, mankiewicz and mason, mason and rennie, year 1944, portrait of adolf hitler, film developing

Plot:

Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador tires of being a servant and forms a plan to promote himself to rich gentleman of leisure. His employer has many secret documents; he will photograph them, and with the help of a refugee countess, sell them to the Germans. When he makes a certain amount of money, he will retire to South America with the countess as his wife.

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