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Sands of the Desert (1960)

Sands of the Desert (1960)

Comedy
Release Date: 1960, September 8
Directors: John Paddy Carstairs
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Associated British Picture Corporation
Cast: Robert Brown, Tutte Lemkow, Alan Tilvern, Martin Benson, Paul Stassino, Eric Pohlmann, Marne Maitland, Jim Brady, Peter Elliott, Neil McCarthy, Harold Kasket, Roy Stewart

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