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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Sahara (1943) - Humphrey Bogart in classic war drama

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 98 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/

Cast

Humphrey Bogart ... Sgt. Joe Gunn
Bruce Bennett ... Waco Hoyt
J. Carrol Naish ... Giuseppe
Lloyd Bridges ... Fred Clarkson
Rex Ingram ... Sgt. Major Tambul
Richard Nugent ... Capt. Jason Halliday
Dan Duryea ... Jimmy Doyle
Carl Harbord ... Marty Williams
Patrick O'Moore ... Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates
Louis Mercier ... Jean Leroux, 'Frenchie' (as Louis T. Mercier)

Description: While fighting in Libya during World War 2 Sergeant Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart) and his M3 Lee tank lovingly referred to as Lulabelle are attached to the British Eighth Army. A retreat order comes through and Joe and his crew, Waco (Bruce Bennet), and Jimmy Doyle (Dan Duryea) are separated from their division and travel across the desert hoping to avoid Rommel's troops when they meet a rag tag group of British soldiers at a field hospital unaware of the retreat. In desperate need of water Joe and his added passengers head toward the site of ancient Roman ruins which holds a watering hole many miles in the distance. Along the way they rescue an Italian soldier who goes by the name Giuseppe (J. Carrol Naish) and a Sudanese soldier and are attacked by a German plane. They shoot down the plane and take the pilot prisoner and learn from him that there are thousands of German soldiers needing water who are travelling toward the well at the ruins where Gunn and his crew is heading. When Gunn arrives at the watering hole the flow of water is very slow and they work diligently to get enough for themselves. Wanting to slow down the incoming Germans from rejoining the war, Gunn sends Waco out across the desert to retrieve the American army nearby for assistance, but the question is whether the desert may prove to be too much.

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