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Sahara Overview:

Sahara (1943) was a War - Drama Film directed by Zoltan Korda and produced by Harry Joe Brown.

Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Supporting ActorJ. Carrol NaishNominated
Best CinematographyRudolph MatéNominated
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Sahara BlogHub Articles:

Sahara (1943): Bogart Against The Nazis…Again

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 12, 2020 From 4 Star Films

The opening crawl of Zoltan Korda’s Sahara sets the scene, though contemporary audiences were probably already well aware of current events. This war film details the exploits of members of the Armored Corps of the Army Ground Forces. In June 1942 an American detachment joined British forces i... Read full article

Sahara (1943)

By Beatrice on Sep 20, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Sahara Directed by Zoltan Korda Written by John Howard Lawson, Zoltan Korda, and James O’Hanlon based on an incident in the Soviet Photoplay, “The Thirteen” 1943/USA Columbia Pictures Corporation Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Made almost contemporaneous with the events surrounding ... Read full article

Sahara (1943) Humphrey Bogart

By Art on Jan 12, 2011 From Classic Cinema Gold

Waco Hoyt: “ I see you whittled them down a bit.” Sgt. Joe Gunn: “Yeah…they whittled us down too.” Sahara (1943 Columbia) is a hard, tough WWII movie set in the Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, with Humphrey Bogart as the leading star. Bogart plays tank commander ... Read full article

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Sahara Facts
Last of the Comanches, made by the same studio about a decade later, was loosely based on this movie.
According to the documentary Going Hollywood: The War Years, two months after Italy surrendered in World War II, this movie was released with an Italian as a principal character - and a good guy. This was J. Carrol Naish playing Giuseppe.
The film's dedication states: " . . . a film dedicated to the IV Armored Corps of the Army Ground Forces, United States Army, whose cooperation made it possible to tell this story."
The film's opening prologue states: "In June, 1942, a small detachment of American tanks with American crews, joined the British Eighth Army in North Africa to get experience in desert warfare under actual battle conditions. History as proved that they learned their lesson well - - ."
The German aircraft strafing the tank was actually an early P-51B.
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