5 Fingers was based on true facts. James Mason plays Diello. An Albanian who was once a valet to a Polish Count.
After the Count died, Diello was let go by his widow Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux.) The impoverished Countess is now in Ankara as she lost her land to the Nazis.
Diello meanwhile works as a valet to the British ambassador in Ankara. He plans to make money by selling secrets to the Nazis. His motive is pure profit.
Sell valuable information and eventually hop it to Rio de Janeiro. He brings the Countess into his plans and she readily agrees as she would do anything to escape poverty.
The Nazis come to believe that Dillo who has the code name Cicero might be a British plant feeding them false information. The British meanwhile bring in a counterintelligence expert Travers (Michael Rennie) to find out who is leaking secrets.
James Mason is having a whale of a time as the amoral and greedy Diello. This is such a cynical espionage film. It has a bittersweet ending with some double crosses but you feel everyone might be a loser.
The film could had been faster paced and more slick. You would think someone like Hitchcock would had made this more thrilling and the humour more darker.
After the Count died, Diello was let go by his widow Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux.) The impoverished Countess is now in Ankara as she lost her land to the Nazis.
Diello meanwhile works as a valet to the British ambassador in Ankara. He plans to make money by selling secrets to the Nazis. His motive is pure profit.
Sell valuable information and eventually hop it to Rio de Janeiro. He brings the Countess into his plans and she readily agrees as she would do anything to escape poverty.
The Nazis come to believe that Dillo who has the code name Cicero might be a British plant feeding them false information. The British meanwhile bring in a counterintelligence expert Travers (Michael Rennie) to find out who is leaking secrets.
James Mason is having a whale of a time as the amoral and greedy Diello. This is such a cynical espionage film. It has a bittersweet ending with some double crosses but you feel everyone might be a loser.
The film could had been faster paced and more slick. You would think someone like Hitchcock would had made this more thrilling and the humour more darker.