Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Louis Mercier, Richard Nugent, Dan Duryea, Carl Harbord, Patrick O'Moore,
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sahara
A small, typically polyglot contingent of Allieds troops with a tank alone in the Sahara desert during WWII find the only water available for miles, but are besieged by an army of Germans. A remake of a Russian movie set in Asia, and remade several times later set in the Wild West and elsewhere, this film plays a lot of the cliches of the war movie and the "under siege" movie type: the tough American sergeant, the sympathetic Italian prisoner, the noble colonial native, the dwindling resources, the scheming enemy, etc. Made shortly after Americans started fighting in Africa, it stresses the brutality of war and desert survival. Fine performances all around, this is a war-movie favorite.
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Sahara
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Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- stranded
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
Specific kind of enemies?
- tyrants
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- dying of thirst, sunburn
Misc setting
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
