The Steel Lady (1953)
Searing Sahara-Hot Adventure!
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
- Date of release
- 1953-10-09
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Director
- E.A. Dupont
Casting
- Rod Cameron — Mike Monahan
- Tab Hunter — Bill Larson
- John Dehner — Sid Barlowe
- Richard Erdman — Jim Evans
- John Abbott — Mustafa el Melik
- Frank Puglia — Sheik Taras
- Anthony Caruso — Zagora
- Christopher Dark — Ibrahim
- Dick Rich — Gus Sanderson
- Charles Victor — Sanderson's Radio Man
- Carmen D'Antonio — Dancing Girl
Interesting facts
The Steel Lady is a 1953 American action film directed by Ewald André Dupont starring Rod Cameron and Tab Hunter. In the film, four Americans are stranded in the deserts of North Africa. They discover a buried German tank dating to World War II, and they attempt to cross the desert with it. But they are attacked by Bedouins, who want to retrieve stolen jewels from the tank.
Production
Tab Hunter made the film under a two picture deal with producer Edward Small. (The other film was Gun Belt.) Filming started in December 1952. The German tank is a US M24 Chaffee, somewhat disguised to appear like a Panzer IV.
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