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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.
- $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
The 'Hollywood Reporter' during mid January 1943 reported that Humphrey Bogart replaced Brian Donlevy for this Columbia Studios film whilst Donlevy in turn replaced Bogart on the same studio's Once Upon a Time.
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Humphrey Bogart was on loan from home studio Warner Bros. for the Columbia film. In their biography Bogart, A. M. Sperber and Eric Lax described the star's routine on the shooting location: "Because Brawley offered little diversion in the evenings, Bogart regularly invited colleagues up to his suite for drinks.
- Zoltan Korda, Abby Berlin
- Humphrey Bogart
Dec 8, 2008 · Oh, and perhaps I forgot to mention that the film takes place in the Sahara desert during the North African Campaign just prior to El Alamein. So water could be of some import here. Eventually the parched group finds an almost dry well at some abandoned ruins.
Jun 20, 2013 · Director: Zoltan Korda The Lowdown Tank commander Sgt. Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart) joins forces with a unit of British soldiers to defend a well in the Sahara desert from the Germans - despite fifty-to-one odds!
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.
