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The film's opening prologue states: "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.
The British were routed at the Battle of Gazala, an important battle of the Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk. As shown in Sahara, many of their tanks were damaged and had to be abandoned due to the 8th Army's retreat. Field Marshal Rommel pursued them into Egypt.
- $2.3 million
- Harry Joe Brown
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.
- Zoltan Korda
- 2 min
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Dec 8, 2008 · The motley bunch kills many weary German soldiers (except those supermen who can have a tank shell explode RIGHT next to them and keep on running unscathed) but at the cost of almost their own entire group. After a few rounds of talks under the white flag, the Germans make a final charge, or do they?
His desert is cruelly realistic (most of the picture was made in the California wastes), and his tank rolling on across the sand dunes bangs and clatters with a true metallic din.But it is in the ...
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.
John Howard Lawson. Screenplay. Philip MacDonald. Story. 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.
