Sahara (1943 American film)
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| Directed by | Zoltán Korda |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown |
| Written by |
Philip MacDonald (story) James O'Hanlon John Howard Lawson (screenplay) Sidney Buchman (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Humphrey Bogart Bruce Bennett Lloyd Bridges J. Carrol Naish Dan Duryea |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
| Edited by | Charles Nelson |
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Columbia Pictures
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.3 million |
Sahara is a 1943 drama war film directed by Zoltán Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The story is credited to a story by Philip MacDonald (Patrol) and an incident depicted in the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen (Russian: ) by Mikhail Romm. Later, Sahara was remade by André de Toth as a Western with Broderick Crawford called Last of the Comanches (1953) and by Brian Trenchard-Smith as the Australian film Sahara (1995).
In Sahara events are depicted which point to the Battle of Gazala, an important battle of the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya. Bogart makes reference to events that occurred in May–June 1942. The battle had begun with the British stronger in terms of numbers and quality of equipment, and had received many of the M3 tanks, which was the tank used in the film. A small group of American advisors and crews had come to train them in use of the equipment.
The British forces were routed, and as shown in Sahara, many tanks which were only damaged, were unable to be salvaged because of the 8th Army's retreat. The British lost virtually all their tanks, although a number of damaged tanks could be evacuated. General Rommel pursued the British into Egypt, trying to keep his opponent under pressure and denying him the opportunity to regroup. As both sides neared exhaustion, the British were able to check Rommel's advance at the First battle of El Alamein, which is where the radio report calls Bogart and tank crew to rally in the film.
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