Tripoli

Tripoli (1950)

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli ... the guts-and-glory story of the U.S. Marines!

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.

Date of release
1950-11-09
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Adventure, Action
Director
Will Price

Casting

Interesting facts

Tripoli is a 1950 American adventure film directed by Will Price, written by Winston Miller and starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed and Grant Withers. The film is a fictionalized account of the April 1805 Battle of Derna pitting the city of Derna, in modern-day Libya, against Tripoli, one of the four Barbary states in North Africa.

Production

Tripoli is one of several contemporary films about the Barbary War; Universal had released Slave Girl (1947) and Columbia had released Barbary Pirate (1949). Payne and O'Hara had appeared together in To the Shores of Tripoli (1942).

The film was originally titled The Barbarians and was a story by Will Price and Winston Miller. Price, a former Marine, was star Maureen O'Hara's husband. Pine-Thomas Productions bought the story in 1949. It was to have starred Dennis O'Keefe, who had recently appeared in The Eagle and the Hawk for Pine-Thomas, as Presley O'Bannon, but Payne replaced him.

Filming took place over the course of 33 days.

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