![]() ![]() ![]() The script was co written with Richard Maibaum, so it makes sense, has decent characters and structure. Writer-director Terence Young served in the desert during the war and clearly responds to the material - there's swirling desert sands, well choreographed action. I've got to say though I quite liked this film - it's a solid war adventure tale that moves at a decent pace. There's also a dash of Rogue Male too with the reveal that Mature had a Jewish wife who wound up at Belsen, and who tried to kill Goebbels so the Nazis are after him. I get the feeling the gang at Warwick Films had this rewritten after watching Bridge on the River Kwai because it has several similar elements - English soldiers in a POW camp during World War Two (only here in North Africa), a stiff upper lip English officer (Leo Genn) clashing with an American soldier (Victor Mature), talk about the Geneva convention and escape committees.
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