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Sands of the Desert
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Title: Sands of the Desert

Release Date: 8 Sep 1960

Runtime: 1h 32m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Associated British Picture Corporation

Production Companies: Associated British Picture Corporation

Overview: In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.3 (6 votes)

Cast

  • Charlie Sands: Charlie Drake
  • Sheikh El Jabez: Peter Arne
  • Janet Brown: Sarah Branch
  • Bossom: Raymond Huntley
  • Nerima: Rebecca Dignam
  • Sheikh Ibrahim: Peter Illing
  • Abu Nlal: Roger Delgado
  • Scrobin: Eric Pohlmann
  • : Neil McCarthy
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