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Sahara
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NR,1hr 37min
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1943
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Columbia TriStar
Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart considered this World War II action epic from director Zoltan Korda one of his finest films. Sergeant Joe Gunn (Bogart) is the commander of an American M-3 tank crew allied to the British Eighth Army, which is defeated by the Germans at Tobruk. Joining the scattered retreat across the Libyan desert, Gunn and his two remaining men, Jimmy Doyle (Dan Duryea) and Waco Hoyt (Bruce Bennett) search for water. Instead the tank crew finds an international mix of stragglers, including an officer ... Full Synopsis
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Zoltan Korda's Sahara was one of the more exciting action movies to come out of World War II, with a brace of fine performances and a plot -- derived, in part, from The Lost Patrol as well as from a Soviet-made documentary entitled The Thirteen -- that has been reused at least a dozen times since (most directly in a solid western called Last of the Comanches). But it was also a movie that helped its ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Sgt. Joe Gunn
Waco Hoyt
Fred Clarkson
Sgt. Tambul
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