Sahara

Sahara

★ 7.2IMDb Score
Released:1943-09-22
Genre:War
Duration:97 min
Director:Zoltan Korda
Actors:Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram
Production:Columbia Pictures

Overview:

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

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