Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Michael O'Keefe
Evocative of the 1940's classic. Memorable and dramatic saga of British soldiers joining an American tank crew and fighting the Germans for their survival as they cross the Libyan Desert with a Sudansese and Frenchman with an Italian prisoner in tow. Plenty of action and war drama. Tobruk has fallen and water is much needed by the sand parched fighters. By far, leaps and bounds over the typical war movie. You will not refuse to watch again. SAHARA is sensational.Humphrey Bogart leads an exceptional cast also featuring: Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Dan Duryea, J. Carrol Naish, Rex Ingram, Kurt Kreuger, Patrick O'Moore, Richard Aherne, Louis Mercier and Peter Lawford.
Tad Pole
. . . were titled similarly to the more recent movie, it would be called LULUBELLE--not SAHARA. Set about two years earlier than FURY, there's no room for the kind of fun and games with the ladies enjoyed by Brad Pitt's tank crew. Humphrey Bogart's team already has been whittled down to just three (including his own character, Master Sergeant Joe Gunn) when this story begins. Unlike Pitt, "Bogie" doesn't enjoy the luxury of fresh reinforcements, either. No local gals are plying Bogie's men with food and drink; there are NO females, NO food, and--worst of all--almost NO water available to survive the torrid zone desert heat. The one similarity between "Fury's" battle and "Lulubelle's" is that they both involve a lone piece of American armor facing a seemingly overwhelming Nazi horde. The difference is that the cast of SAHARA look like actual soldiers--NOT playboys pretending to be soldiers for two hours. Bogart's self-defined mission in SAHARA is easy to comprehend; Pitt's orders in FURY are murky at best. SAHARA ends with unconditional German surrender (just like what happened in real life). FURY closes with the victorious Nazis marching away whistling, like SNOW WHITE's SEVEN DWARFS. If FURY made you furious, it's time to salute a superior SAHARA.
patrick-180-667941
I relied on the glowing mark attributed to this movie on IMDb and wasted an hour and a half watching this predictable propaganda movie. The Germans are dumb or devious caricatural Nazis. The Italian a nice chap who would have liked to be an American. The American sergeant (in Libya in 1943!?) commands the vassals of the US, even a British officer, superior to him in rank.I really could not understand how the Germans could not outflank the small Bogart crew but insisted on frontal attacks. I couldn't quite get either where Bogart was getting his fuel for his gas-guzzling antiquated tank. There is never any suspense or subtle portraits.Only for unconditional patriotic Americans or Bogart fans.
AaronCapenBanner
Zoltan Korda directed this WWII film that stars Humphrey Bogart as Sergeant Joe Gunn(great name!) a tank commander in charge of a diverse group of mixed nationalities making their way across the hot, barren, and bleak North African desert of the Sahara, trying to reunite with the main American force and stay alive in the process, since cool, fresh water is vital, and more valuable than gold. Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, J. Carol Naish, Rex Ingram, and Dan Duraya costar. Well-directed film really captures the atmosphere of its time and place well, and makes the viewer feel the dryness of the Sahara(though filmed in California) and sympathize with their plight. Good acting as well.
