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 | tank | british soldier | reference to muhammad | italian soldier |Taglines:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
11 November 1943 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Gross USA:
$2,300,000Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Sgt. Joe Gunn: Oh, tell him not to worry about him being black. It won't come off on on his pretty uniform.
[to the Sudanese solder]
Sgt. Joe Gunn: Go ahead and search him.
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History has proved that they learned their lesson well - - See more »
(uncredited)
Music by Stephen Foster
Played on the harmonica by Patrick O'Moore.
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During the production, cast and crew resided at the Planter's Hotel in Brawley, Imperial County, California. The hotel was located approximately forty miles from the location where the film was shooting. Over the years the hotel guests included other notables including Clark Gable and John Wayne. The place was later abandoned and eventually burned down in 2007. It has since been razed. See more »Goofs
Tambul, a Sergeant Major, outranks Gunn, a Master Sergeant. Gunn should have ceded command to Tambul as soon as Tambul met up with the remnants of Gunn's unit. See more »Quotes
Capt. Jason Halliday: [Referring to a captured German POW] He doesn't want to be touched by an inferior race.Sgt. Joe Gunn: Oh, tell him not to worry about him being black. It won't come off on on his pretty uniform.
[to the Sudanese solder]
Sgt. Joe Gunn: Go ahead and search him.
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Crazy Credits
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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Oh! Susanna(uncredited)
Music by Stephen Foster
Played on the harmonica by Patrick O'Moore.
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Sahara although not usually contained in the compendium of Bogey's best movies is a rousing WWII action movie. The plot involving a rag tag group of allied soldiers,along with Bogey's M-3 Grant Tank "Lulu Belle" holding a North African well against a motorized battalion of the Afrika Korps is enough to set the tone of this movie. I will not go into the plot any further but state that it was filmed in 1943 and it was a morale booster. The acting is first rate and the fact that an African-American actor, Rex Ingram was treated as an equal, as Sergeant-Major Tambul, Fourth Sudanese Battalion was far ahead of his time. A movie I see every time it plays. It was remade for TV with James Belushi playing the Bogart role as Master Sergeant Joe Gunn, USA and was a good movie in its own right. However, the Bogart version sets the standard. A must see movie for Bogey fans and WWII film buffs.
Michael Wolkow, Colonel, Infantry, Retired