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The Black Tent (1956)

04/09/1956 Romance, Drama, Action 1h 33m
60%
User
Score
5.5/10

Overview

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

Bryan Forbes

Writer

Brian Desmond Hurst

Director

Robin Maugham

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden

Col. Sir Charles Holland

Anthony Steel

Anthony Steel

Capt. David Holland

Anna Maria Sandri

Anna Maria Sandri

Mabrouka ben Yussef

André Morell

André Morell

Sheik Salem ben Yussef

Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

Ali

Ralph Truman

Ralph Truman

Major Cross

Terence Sharkey

Terence Sharkey

Daoud Holland

Anton Diffring

Anton Diffring

Senior German Officer

Anthony Bushell

Anthony Bushell

Ambassador Baring

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Media

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on March 9, 2015

Well it's more multi-coloured than black.

But I'm just being facetious!

Brian Desmond Hurst directs, Anthony Steel and André Morell star, Bryan Forbes and Robin Maugham write, William Alwyn scores the music and Desmond Dickinson photographs in VistaVision Technicolor.

It looks lovely, the Libya locations amazing, yet it's a dull and uneventful movie. Story concerns Capt. David Holland (Steel), who during WWII in the North African campaign gets injured and winds up being nursed by some Bedouin natives. He promptly becomes part of the crowd, falls in love with the Sheik's daughter and instigates a repel the Nazis front with the natives. But what happened next? Holland's brother, Col. Sir Charles (Donald Sinden), travels to Libya to find out.

What he finds is obviously what we f...

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