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Sea of Sand (1958)

Sea of Sand poster
Directed by
Guy Green
Genre
war film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of British soldiers in the Long Range Desert Group drives deep behind enemy lines in North Africa during World War Two. They must destroy a German fuel depot and then escape back across the harsh desert.

tensegrittymethodicalsomberrestrainedsuspensefulvisceralwar-torn

What happens

Sea of Sand (released in the US as Desert Patrol) is a 1958 British war film starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. Directed by Guy Green, it concerns a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during the North African Campaign in the Second World War. It was shot on location in the Kingdom of Libya. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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