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'Ice Cold in Alex' is an absorbing story of a British ambulance trying to get to safety in the North African desert. There is the heat, minefields, enemy troops, more heat, shifting sands and human weaknesses to contend with and at the end of the film (over two hours)one feels exhausted.
Reviews 93% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Captain Anson (John Mills) is tired and thirsty. Forced to leave his North African post when it becomes clear it will be invaded, Anson is on his way to...
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- J. Lee Thompson
- War
- John Mills
Jun 12, 2011 · Ice Cold In Alex is a bonafide classic war film that rewards each and every time that it is viewed. It boasts fabulous performances, a realism that you can taste and set-pieces that rely upon character and emotion and not simply pyrotechnics. Worth waiting for? You betcha!
Sylvia Syms. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +5. Add to Watchlist. Added by 6.6K users. 72 User reviews. 33 Critic reviews. Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards. 1 win & 5 nominations total. Videos 1.
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- Adventure, Drama, War
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1958-06-27
- A realistic tone. Ice Cold in Alex is much less jingoistic than many war films of its time. The mission is about survival rather than victory or defeat – watching today you might be reminded of Bryan Forbes’ underrated PoW drama King Rat (1965) in which ethical certainties play second fiddle to the business of staying alive.
- The resolute protagonist. One of the biggest British stars of the 1940s and 50s, thanks to roles in terrific fare such as This Happy Breed (1944) and Waterloo Road (1945), John Mills had a big 1958.
- Trucking hell. An ambulance is not a truck, but even so Ice Cold in Alex plays something like a British answer to the French suspense classic The Wages of Fear.
- More than method. Sylvia Syms once claimed that there was “very little acting” in the film because the conditions of filming in Libya were so difficult.
May 12, 2021 · The 1958 war drama Ice Cold in Alex, based on a novel by Christopher Landon and inspired by his own war experiences, follows the retreat of a small group of British officers and nurses from Tobruk to Alexandria in a rickety ambulance as the German military advances through North Africa in 1942.
"Ice Cold In Alex Review". Empire. A moving account of a group of strangers surviving the odds brings out one of John Mills' best performances. 3 of 5 stars. Williams, Melanie (2014). "BFI Screenonline: Ice Cold in Alex". British Film Institute; Williams, Melanie (2009).
