"Blistering sun... blazing bullets!"
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Victor McLaglen
The Sergeant
Boris Karloff
Sanders
Wallace Ford
Morelli
Reginald Denny
Brown
J.M. Kerrigan
Quincannon
Billy Bevan
Hale
Alan Hale
Cook
Brandon Hurst
Bell
Douglas Walton
Pearson
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
When the commander of a desert patrol is shot leading his men on a secret mission, nobody left knows where they are supposed to be going but “Sgt. Quincannon” (was it a contractual obligation for Victor McLaglen’s character to be called that?) knows they have to find water and shelter soon. To that end, they head to an oasis where they settle for the night but in the morning discover their horses have been stolen and their sentry killed. Now, with the sun beating down on them and with no idea what they are supposed to be doing now, the psychology of their situation starts to affect each man in different ways. They know that any wrong move will likely leave them fodder for the snipers who killed their captain, but pretty soon their discipline becomes compromised and the sergeant has his work cut out for him. Amongst his troop is bible-thumping “Sanders” (Boris Karloff) who proves increasingly zealous and there’s also quite a gently effective effort from Reginald Denny as an officer and a gentlemen determined to hold on to some semblance of civilised behaviour as their unseen enemy hides in the dunes. I quite like these siege scenarios where each of the characters can have their own few moments in the sun, and for the most part John Ford allows each of this small troop to bring a different perspective to their predicament, but essentially this is all about Karloff and an on-form McLaglen that is slowly but effectively paced with quite a degree of jeopardy right until the conclusion.
ภาพยนตร์รางวัลออสการ์ชิ้นนี้ เล่าเรื่องจริงของ ทีอี ลอว์เรนซ์ ผู้ที่ช่วยให้ชนเผ่าชาวอาหรับที่ทำสงครามกันให้หันมาจับมือกันเพื่อตอบโต้ชาวเติร์กในสงครามโลกครั้งที่หนึ่ง
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
ชาร์ลส์ จอร์จ กอร์ดอน นายพลชาวอังกฤษที่เป็นชาวคริสต์ ได้รับการแต่งตั้งให้อพยพชาวอียิปต์ออกจากประเทศซูดาน ชารล์สต้องตั้งรับอยู่ที่เมืองหลวงคาร์ทูมที่กำลังจะถูกกองทัพมุสลิมพิชิต คำสั่งในกองทัพของเขากำลังถูกพิสูจน์ครั้งยิ่งใหญ่จากความเชื่อและความศรัทธาที่แตกต่างกัน
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.