'Sahara' from 1943 - War Movie of the Week

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Sahara is a 1943 American action war film from Columbia Pictures, directed by Zoltán Korda, that stars Humphrey Bogart as an American tank commander in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The storyline is based on a story by Philip MacDonald (Patrol) and an incident depicted in the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen by Mikhail Romm.

Cast
Humphrey Bogart as Sgt. Joe Gunn
Bruce Bennett as Waco Hoyt
J. Carrol Naish as Giuseppe
Lloyd Bridges as Fred Clarkson
Rex Ingram as Sgt. Major Tambul
Richard Aherne as Capt. Jason Halliday (as Richard Nugent)
Dan Duryea as Jimmy Doyle
Carl Harbord as Marty Williams
Patrick O'Moore as Osmond "Ozzie" Bates
Louis Mercier as Jean Leroux, "Frenchie" (as Louis T. Mercier)
Guy Kingsford as Peter Stegman
Kurt Kreuger as Captain von Schletow (as Kurt Krueger)
John Wengraf as Major Von Falken

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