Sands of the Desert
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Original UK quad poster
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| Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
| Produced by | Gordon Scott |
| Written by | John Paddy Carstairs (screenplay) Charlie Drake (additional dialogue) |
| Story by | Anne Burnaby Stafford Byrne Robert Hall |
| Starring | Charlie Drake |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
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| Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors(UK) |
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Release dates
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8 September 1960 (UK) |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Sands of the Desert is a 1960 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Charlie Drake, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch and Raymond Huntley. A British travel agent gets mixed up in trouble in the Arabian Peninsula.[1]
Cast
- 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 - Abdullah
- Marne Maitland - Advisor to Sheikh
- Neil McCarthy - Hassan
- Derek Sydney - Mamud
- Alan Tilvern - Mustafa
- Martin Benson - Selin
- Eric Pohlmann - Scrobin
- Inia Te Wiata - Fahid
- Paul Stassino - Pilot
Critical reception
TV Guide described it as "a mildly amusing comedy that never really delivers its laugh quota, due primarily to its uneven script. Drake, a popular British television comic of the day, is good, though the movies are clearly not his metier." [2]
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sands of the Desert at IMDb
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