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Sahara(Movie, 1943)

1h 37min | Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
SaharaRating: 3.6/5 (with 5454 votes)
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. The story is based on the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald, and an incident depicted in the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen by Mikhail Romm. The adaptation is by John Howard Lawson, who later was a member of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. Sahara was remade by André de Toth as a Western called Last of the Comanches (1953), and four decades later by Brian Trenchard-Smith as the American-Australian television film Sahara (1995). Nine Men, released by Ealing Studios on 22 February 1943, has a similar basic plot line. Critics praised the film for its blend of action, suspense and poignancy. J. Carrol Naish earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an Italian prisoner; Rudolph Maté was nominated for Best Cinematography (Black-and-White); and John ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Sahara

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Sound

About Sahara

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. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: California
Plays in: Libya
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Italian (IT)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/22/1943
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Sahara: Em Busca da Sobrevivência"
"Сахара"
Revenue: 2,300,000 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Sahara (US, 1919), Sahara (IN, 1958), Sahara (PK, 1959), Sahara (GB/US, 1983), Sahara (AU/US, 1995), Sahara (DE/ES/GB/US, 2005), Sahara (NL, 2007), Sahara (CA/FR, 2017), Sahara (2018)

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