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Release Date:
July 1957 (USA) morePlot:
During the British retreat, David Holland (Anthony Steel) takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter (Anna-Maria Sandri)... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Great scenery, terrible plot moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Donald Sinden | ... | Col. Sir Charles Holland | |
| Anthony Steel | ... | Capt. David Holland | |
| Anna-Maria Sandri | ... | Mabrouka ben Yussef (as Anna Maria Sandri) | |
| André Morell | ... | Sheik Salem ben Yussef (as Andre Morell) | |
| Terence Sharkey | ... | Daoud Holland | |
| Donald Pleasence | ... | Ali | |
| Ralph Truman | ... | Major Croft | |
| Anthony Bushell | ... | Ambassador Baring | |
| Michael Craig | ... | Sheik Faris | |
| Paul Homer | ... | Khalil ben Yussef | |
| Anton Diffring | ... | Senior Nazi Officer | |
| Frederick Jaeger | ... | Koch, junior Nazi officer | |
| Derek Sydney | ... | Interpreter | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bryan Forbes | ... | Dying Soldier (scenes deleted) | |
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Even as a fan of Donald Sinden, this is only an OK offering. The most enjoyable part has to be the amazing locations, set in Libya. The original story was obviously a long novel that was a real struggle to compress into a script