Coming across a small gem of a movie that you had heard almost nothing of is like finding a tennis ball size gold nugget in the middle of the street: you want to jump up and down and tell everyone in the area about it. That was my feeling after seeing Sahara. This movie is a very simple, straight forward film throwing a disparate group of soldiers together in a fight for survival in harsh conditions against an overwhelming enemy army. And though they have many conflicts within their group and though they are vastly outnumbered, they emerge plausibly victorious. The plot is so simple and yet so strong, it has been used in many other movies, even a Western (Last of the Cammanches). As usual with Warner Brothers films of the early forties, this one is packed with al the good solid Warner character actors and supporting leads you'd expect.
If you are mining for rare movie gems, consider digging this one up.
If you are mining for rare movie gems, consider digging this one up.