Humphrey Bogart
Sgt. Joe Gunn
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The Sahara Desert in this movie was Borrego Desert in California, which is located in the Imperial Valley, north of the American-Mexican border. Filming also took place in Brawley--also in Imperial County--Chatsworth (in the San Fernando Valley) and the sand dunes of Yuma, AZ.
Sahara is a 1943 American action war film directed by Zoltán Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart as an American tank commander in Libya who, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
1. Sahara. "Lulubelle" is an M3 Lee tank. Bernard Nedell was tested for a leading part in this movie. Last of the Comanches, made by the same studio about a decade later, was loosely based on this movie. Louis Mercier plays a character in this movie called Jean Leroux but his dog tag in the movie CBCS and in reviews has the name Pierre Leroux.
Sahara: Directed by Zoltan Korda. With Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges. 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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- Action, Drama, War
- Zoltan Korda
- 1943-11-11
This title card announces the recent history behind the 1943 Columbia Pictures release Sahara, an intelligent and intense action film, one of the first made by Humphrey Bogart following the enormous success of Casablanca (1942).
- Zoltan Korda, Abby Berlin
- Humphrey Bogart
Overview. 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. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water.
SAHARA, screen play by John Howard Lawson and Zoltan Korda; adaptation by James O'Hanlon; from a story by Philip MacDonald; based on an incident in the Soviet photoplay, "The Thirteen"; directed ...
