Stars: Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea, Rex Ingram, Louis Mercier, Patrick O'Moore

Director: Zoltan Korda

Summary: Sergeant Joe Gunn retreats across the desert with his men after the fall of Tobruk. They now face a desperate struggle as their water runs out...

World War II action classic about the desperate retreat across the Sahara of a tank battallion. When the tank crew captures a desert fortress, they must battle a detachment of Germans in order to keep their water. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography.

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It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Saharafinds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)--a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond--in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly might have ended up there. Soon he and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) are lost in another adventure, discovering a deadly contaminate being tracked by a beautiful doctor (Penelope Cruz). The results are checkered: there's no one outstanding sequence, but the action is enjoyably varied, while the thrills are mild yet not bombastic or gratuitous. The cast are all adept in their roles, yet the only one who sparkles is the scene-stealing Zahn, cast against type; McConaughey, who also produced, knows he might be starting a franchise character and plays it safe. He's never as dangerous as Cussler's hero is on the page (except in his introduction), and in fact, the whole movie plays towards comedy, infused by a soundtrack of 70s FM radio monsters. Cussler fanatics may not like this lighter fare, especially with the archeological portion (a Cussler strong point) not fully embraced, but with a very, very likable cast and colorful settings, Saharais a kindler, gentler action film that has all the elements in place for a better, more memorable franchise if anyone cares to attempt it. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Vintage Advertising, Filmographies
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1943
Release Date:	January 28, 2002
Runtime:	93 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 10663
Keywords:	Action, General, Sahara, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure