Top billed cast

1. 

   Donald Sinden

   Col. Sir Charles Holland

2. 

   Anthony Steel

   Capt. David Holland

3. 

   Anna Maria Sandri

   Mabrouka ben Yussef

4. 

   André Morell

   Sheik Salem ben Yussef

5. 

   Donald Pleasence

   Ali

6. 

   Ralph Truman

   Major Cross

7. 

   Terence Sharkey

   Daoud Holland

8. 

   Anton Diffring

   Senior German Officer

9. 

   Anthony Bushell

   Ambassador Baring

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-03-09

Well it's more multi-coloured than black.

But I'm just being facetious!

Brian Desmond Hurst directs, Anthony Steel and André Morell star, Bryan Forbes and Robin Maugham write, William Alwyn scores the music and Desmond Dickinson photographs in VistaVision Technicolor.

It looks lovely, the Libya locations amazing, yet it's a dull and uneventful movie. Story concerns Capt. David Holland (Steel), who during WWII in the North African campaign gets injured and winds up being nursed by some Bedouin natives. He promptly becomes part of the crowd, falls in love with the Sheik's daughter and...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• libya
• world war ii
• vistavision