Destination Gobi (1953)

Directed by

Robert Wise

Genre

drama film, adventure film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a group of American sailors stationed in a remote part of China form an unlikely partnership with local Mongol nomads. Together they work to observe enemy weather patterns and report back to the Allied forces.

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What happens

Destination Gobi is a 1953 American Technicolor World War II film released by 20th Century-Fox. It was produced by Stanley Rubin, directed by Robert Wise (his first color feature film), and stars Richard Widmark and Don Taylor. The film is about the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO), referred to as Sino-American Combined Operations in the film. Actor Ernest Borgnine has stated in interviews that he believed that this film, and Widmark's role of CPO Sam McHale, were the basis of the role of Quentin McHale in Borgnine's 1960s television show McHale's Navy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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