Sea of Sand

original title:
Sea of Sand
other titles:
(Die schwarzen Teufel von El Alamein), Desert Patrol
country / year of production:
Great Britain / 1958
original length:
97 min. , black/white
premiere:
S: 16 March 1959
genre:
adventure
based on:
director:
Guy Green
film script:
Robert Westerby
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cast (role):
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Lord , Vincent Ball , Michael Craig
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place in North Africa and deals with a small British army troop, that is supposed to destroy a German petrol dump. But they find more and more tanks in the desert. A tense chase across the desert starts.
keywords:
desert , prisoner camps , tanks , suicide squad / mission , , comradeship
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Bernard Law Montogomery: Von El Alamein zum Sangro: Feldmarschall Montgomerys eigener Kriegsbericht. Hamburg: Toth, 1949.
remarks:
The shortened US version is called "Desert Patrol". (78 min.)
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