Sahara (1943)

SAHARA (1943)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Zoltan Korda
    Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Dan Duryea,
    J. Carrol Naish, Rex Ingram, Lloyd Bridges
Exciting World War Two action with Bogart as a tank commander in North Africa leading a handful of Yanks and Brits (and a Frenchman and an Italian and a Sudanese) against 500 desperately thirsty Germans. Formula heroics, but it's hard to complain when the formula's done this well. A throwback to a time when we knew what the wars we were fighting were about, and Hollywood was there to remind us, just in case. Under any real battlefield conditions, Bogart's character would spend a lot more time wearing a helmet, but apparently your risk of catching a bullet in the head goes way down when you're the star of a piece like this. Jeff Bridges' dad plays one of the Brits.