Sahara is a 1943 war film directed by Zoltán Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound , Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor by J. Carrol Naish for his role as an Italian prisoner. The story is credited to an incident depicted in the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen by Mikhail Romm. Later, Sahara was remade by Andre de Toth as a Western with Broderick Crawford called Last of the Comanches and by Brian Trenchard-Smith as the Australian film Sahara,... with James Belushi in Bogart's role. The crew of an M3 Lee tank, commanded by U.S. Army Master Sergeant Joe Gunn and nicknamed Lulu Belle, become separated from their unit during a general retreat from Erwin Rommel's forces. At a bombed-out field hospital, the Americans pick up a motley collection of stragglers, among them British doctor Captain Halliday, four Commonwealth troops, and Free French Corporal Leroux . Halliday, the only officer, cedes command to Gunn.
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| Release date: | 1943 |
| Directed by: | Zoltán Korda |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harry Joe Brown |
| Editor: | Charles Nelson |
| Music by: | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography: | Rudolph Maté |
| Screenplay by: | Philip MacDonald, James O'Hanlon, John Howard Lawson |