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| Director: | Zoltan Korda | 
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| Writer: | Zoltan Korda, Philip MacDonald, James O'Hanlon, John Howard Lawson | 
| Staring: | 
| In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 22, 1943 | 
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| Director: | Zoltan Korda | 
| Writer: | Zoltan Korda, Philip MacDonald, James O'Hanlon, John Howard Lawson | 
| Genres: | Adventure, War | 
| Keywords | world war ii, libya, tank, sergeant, desert, desert warfare, 1940s | 
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $2,300,000 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| Humphrey Bogart | Sgt. Joe Gunn | 
| Bruce Bennett | Waco Hoyt | 
| J. Carrol Naish | Giuseppe | 
| Lloyd Bridges | Fred Clarkson | 
| Rex Ingram | Sgt. Maj. Tambul | 
| Richard Aherne | Capt. Jason Halliday | 
| Dan Duryea | Jimmy Doyle | 
| Carl Harbord | Marty Williams | 
| Patrick O'Moore | Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates | 
| Louis Mercier | Jean Leroux - 'Frenchie' | 
| Guy Kingsford | Peter Stegman | 
| Kurt Kreuger | Capt. von Schletow | 
| John Wengraf | Maj. von Falken | 
| Louis Adlon | Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Niels Bagge | German Private (uncredited) | 
| Walter Bonn | Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Frederic Brunn | German Private (uncredited) | 
| Leslie Denison | British Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Michael Dyne | British Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Carl Ekberg | Sniper (uncredited) | 
| Jack Gardner | British Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Leyland Hodgson | British Officer (uncredited) | 
| Frank Lackteen | Sheik Ali (uncredited) | 
| Peter Lawford | British Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Nelson Leigh | British Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Anthony Marsh | Soldier (uncredited) | 
| John Meredith | Soldier (uncredited) | 
| George N. Neise | British Sergeant (uncredited) | 
| Otto Reichow | German Captain (uncredited) | 
| Henry Rowland | Captured German Private (uncredited) | 
| John Royce | Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Hans Schumm | Sgt. Krause (uncredited) | 
| Robert R. Stephenson | German Soldier (uncredited) | 
| Walter Thiele | Sniper (uncredited) | 
| Frederick Worlock | Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited) | 
| Vilmos Gyimes | Sergeant (uncredited) | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| Zoltan Korda | Screenplay, Director | 
| Rudolph Maté | Director of Photography | 
| Miklós Rózsa | Original Music Composer | 
| Morris Stoloff | Music Director | 
| Charles Nelson | Editor | 
| Philip MacDonald | Story | 
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction | 
| James O'Hanlon | Adaptation | 
| Abby Berlin | Assistant Director | 
| William Kiernan | Set Decoration | 
| John Howard Lawson | Screenplay | 
| Sidney Buchman | Additional Writing | 
| Henry Pringle | Makeup Artist | 
| Eugène Lourié | Assistant Art Director | 
| Lodge Cunningham | Sound Engineer | 
| Homer Plannette | Gaffer | 
| Ned Scott | Still Photographer | 
| Eugene Zador | Orchestrator | 
| Name | Title | 
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| Harry Joe Brown | Producer | 
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min | 
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| 2024 | 4 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 
| 2024 | 5 | 21 | 41 | 13 | 
| 2024 | 6 | 18 | 31 | 10 | 
| 2024 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 11 | 
| 2024 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 10 | 
| 2024 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 
| 2024 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 
| 2024 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 7 | 
| 2024 | 12 | 15 | 35 | 9 | 
| 2025 | 1 | 13 | 24 | 9 | 
| 2025 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 
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| Year | Month | High | Avg | 
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| 2025 | 10 | 889 | 917 |