Sahara
Sep 22 1943
•2h 37m
•Adventure, War
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
Cast
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Humphrey Bogart
Sgt. Joe Gunn
Bruce Bennett
Waco Hoyt
J. Carrol Naish
Giuseppe
Lloyd Bridges
Fred Clarkson
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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.