For Billy Wilder's second directorial feature, he crafted a wartime thriller rife with espionage and romance, which netted 3 Oscar nominations, and has been named by Quentin Tarantino as one of his Top 10 films of all time.

It's World War II, and British soldier John Bramble (Franchot Tone) is the lone survivor of a brutal battle in Egypt. After wandering through the desert, Bramble finds a remote hotel. There, in order to stay alive, he assumes a false identity, catching the attention of cynical French chambermaid Mouche (Anne Baxter). When the famed German general Rommel (played famed film director Erich von Stroheim, who'd later reteam with Wilder for SUNSET BOULEVARD), aka the Desert Fox, arrives at the hotel, Bramble realizes he's being taken for a German spy. Can this lowly British soldier turn the tide in the war and foil Germany's plans in North Africa?