Sands of the Desert (1960)
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
- Date of release
- 1960-09-08
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- John Paddy Carstairs
Casting
- Charlie Drake — Charlie Sands
- Peter Arne — Sheikh El Jabez
- Sarah Branch — Janet Brown
- Raymond Huntley — Bossom
- Rebecca Dignam — Nerima
- Peter Illing — Sheikh Ibrahim
- Harold Kasket — Abdulla
- Marne Maitland — Advisor to Sheikh
- Neil McCarthy — Hassan
- Derek Sydney — Mamud
- Alan Tilvern — Mustafa
- Martin Benson — Selim
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