Sahara

original title:
Sahara
other titles:
(Sahara - Wüste des Todes), Tobruk Hell Fighters
country / year of production:
Australia , USA / 1994
original length:
106 min. , color
premiere:
USA: 25 April 1995
genre:
TV-film
based on:
director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith
film script:
David Phillips
producer:
Darryl Sheen
cinematographer:
John Stokes
editor:
Alan Lake , Patrick Stewart
composer:
Garry McDonald , Lawrence Stone
cast (role):
James Belushi (Sgt. Joe Gunn) , Alan David Lee (Bates) , Simon Westaway (Williams) , Mark Lee (Doyle) , Michael Massee (Leroux) , James Belushi , Alan David Lee , Simon Westaway , Mark Lee , Michael Massee
more:
plot synopsis:
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army Sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.

keywords:
tanks , desert , escape , outnumbered , , resistance, opposition
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Bernard Law Montgomery: Von El Alamein zum Sangro: Feldmarschall Montgomerys eigener Kriegsbericht. Hamburg: Toth, 1949.
remarks:
The film is a remake of Zoltan Korda's 1943 version.

Was filmed in Port Stephens.
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