After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
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Title: Sahara (1943)
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Sgt. Joe Gunn | |
| Bruce Bennett | ... | Waco Hoyt | |
| J. Carrol Naish | ... | Giuseppe | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Fred Clarkson | |
| Rex Ingram | ... | Sgt. Major Tambul | |
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Richard Aherne | ... | Capt. Jason Halliday (as Richard Nugent) |
| Dan Duryea | ... | Jimmy Doyle | |
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Carl Harbord | ... | Marty Williams |
| Patrick O'Moore | ... | Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates | |
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Louis Mercier | ... | Jean Leroux, 'Frenchie' (as Louis T. Mercier) |
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Guy Kingsford | ... | Peter Stegman |
| Kurt Kreuger | ... | Capt. von Schletow (as Kurt Krueger) | |
| John Wengraf | ... | Maj. Von Falken | |
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Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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world war two | strafing | white flag | wounded soldier | british soldier |Taglines:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
11 November 1943 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$2,300,000, 31 December 1943Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Capt. von Schletow: You dare to insult the Führer?
Giuseppe: That would take an artiste - I am but a mechanic.
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(uncredited)
Music by Stephen Foster
Played on the harmonica by Patrick O'Moore.
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The Sahara desert in this movie was portrayed by the California desert's Borego Desert which is located in the Imperial Valley, north of the American-Mexican border as well as Brawley, Imperial County, California; Chatsworth, California and the sand dunes of Yuma, Arizona. See more »Goofs
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Giuseppe: Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers, he cannot like Hitler, make them feel like that. He cannot, like Hitler, scrape from the conscience the knowledge that right is right and wrong is wrong, or dig holes in their heads to plant his own ten commandments: steal from thy neighbor, cheat thy neighbor, kill thy neighbor.Capt. von Schletow: You dare to insult the Führer?
Giuseppe: That would take an artiste - I am but a mechanic.
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Opening credits prologue: In June, 1942, a small detachment of American tanks with American crews, joined the British Eighth Army in North Africa to get experience in desert warfare under actual battle conditions.History has proved that they learned their lesson well - - See more »
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Music by Stephen Foster
Played on the harmonica by Patrick O'Moore.
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"Sahara" is a first-rate War film, well directed by Zoltan Korda, which qualitatively balanced its superb action sequences with penetrating character studies
Bogart is seen as a tank commander who, when separated from his unit in the Libyan Desert, picks up a group of allied (and eventually several enemy) stragglers and heads out in search of badly needed water Once they arrive at a nearly dry oasis, and after he learns that a motorized battalion of Germans is also after the water, Bogart decides to make a valiant stand
Bogart's characterization is excellent as he gave what many considered to be the most realistic portrait of the truly "American" fighting man yet pictured on the screen
Assisting in the overall success of "Sahara" was a masterful musical score by Miklos Rozsa, who did similar duty the same year in another "tank" picture, Billy Wilder's "Five Graves to Cairo."