Little know war movie set in Libya during the German advance toward the Egypitan cities of Alexandria and Cairo in the fateful summer of 1942.
Yossof Streyer, Wilhelm Von Brincken, masquerading around as a Czech running the Streyer Importing & Exporting Co. in the Lybian city of El-Mocha. Streyer really is a German spy who's importing thousands of German Mauser rifles to arm the Arab tribesmen and incite them to revolt against the occupying British helping Rommel and his Afrika Corp take over Lybia Egypt and the Suez Canal.
In pops American reporter Mike Malone, Walter Wolf King, looking for the big scoop and almost single handed loses the war in North Africa for the allies by his obnoxious actions. Malone soon gets his later girlfriend and fiancée Nancy Brooks, Joan Woodbury,almost killed when he breaks into her house and leaves a German Mauser rifle that he stole from the perusing Arabs on her sofa. The jerk takes off leaving Nacy holding the bag, or rifle, and almost certain death at the hands of the vengeful Arabs. The only reason that Nancy was speared was that the leader of the Arab tribesmen is the good and kind Sheik David, Duncan Renaldo, who's also in love with her.
Malone keeps getting into trouble all through the film by being so ridicules and rude towards the local Arabs that he's put in prison by the British just to keep him from starting a revolt against them even without German help. Putting on a fake clip-on beard as a disguise the British police have no trouble at all recognizing him and grab Malone and put him behind bars for his own protection. Malone is helped to escape from the jail, fake beard and all, by Parkyakarkus a Brooklyn N.Y native who ended up in El-Mocha trying to sell razor blades, to the Muslem men who don't shave, and local belly dancer Haditha, Amarilla Morris. Malone is caught later by the Arabs when he and Parkyakarkus went back to the cave where the Arabs had the German rifles hidden, Parkyakarkus escaped.
Just wen he's about to be done in by Sheik David's second in command the villainous Sheik Ibrahim Malone is saved by David and Joan who just happened to be with him in his tent when his execution was about to take place. Meanwhile Streyer, who's bankrolling the Arab revolt,is getting sick and tired of the good Sheik David stalling the revolt and during a heated exchange with him pulls a gun out and shots him dead.
With now the German controlled Sheik Ibrahim in charge the Arabs revolt and storm the city of El-Mocha but all of a sudden the dead Sheik David appears alive and calls for peace not war with the British. It was a medal that David had on him, that was handed down to him by his father who it was handed to by his grandfather, that was very close to his heart that took Streyer's bullet thus saving his life.
The shocked Sheik Ibrahim, as well as Streyer, pulls a gun out to shoot David but is shot and killed by Malone who beat him to the draw, Ibrahim was so slow in pulling out his gun that by the time he pulled the trigger the movie would have long been over.
Streyer running into his office is shot and killed, off screen, by none other the the clownish Paryakarkus who turned to be an undercover agent for US military intelligence and just like that the Arab revolt was over.
I found the American reporter in the movie Mike Malone really annoying the way he acted as if he knew the outcome of the movie, by reading the script ahead of time, and saw that nothing would happen to him and thus acted accordingly, like a first class jerk, and almost got all the good guys in the movie "A Yank in Lybia" killed.
Yossof Streyer, Wilhelm Von Brincken, masquerading around as a Czech running the Streyer Importing & Exporting Co. in the Lybian city of El-Mocha. Streyer really is a German spy who's importing thousands of German Mauser rifles to arm the Arab tribesmen and incite them to revolt against the occupying British helping Rommel and his Afrika Corp take over Lybia Egypt and the Suez Canal.
In pops American reporter Mike Malone, Walter Wolf King, looking for the big scoop and almost single handed loses the war in North Africa for the allies by his obnoxious actions. Malone soon gets his later girlfriend and fiancée Nancy Brooks, Joan Woodbury,almost killed when he breaks into her house and leaves a German Mauser rifle that he stole from the perusing Arabs on her sofa. The jerk takes off leaving Nacy holding the bag, or rifle, and almost certain death at the hands of the vengeful Arabs. The only reason that Nancy was speared was that the leader of the Arab tribesmen is the good and kind Sheik David, Duncan Renaldo, who's also in love with her.
Malone keeps getting into trouble all through the film by being so ridicules and rude towards the local Arabs that he's put in prison by the British just to keep him from starting a revolt against them even without German help. Putting on a fake clip-on beard as a disguise the British police have no trouble at all recognizing him and grab Malone and put him behind bars for his own protection. Malone is helped to escape from the jail, fake beard and all, by Parkyakarkus a Brooklyn N.Y native who ended up in El-Mocha trying to sell razor blades, to the Muslem men who don't shave, and local belly dancer Haditha, Amarilla Morris. Malone is caught later by the Arabs when he and Parkyakarkus went back to the cave where the Arabs had the German rifles hidden, Parkyakarkus escaped.
Just wen he's about to be done in by Sheik David's second in command the villainous Sheik Ibrahim Malone is saved by David and Joan who just happened to be with him in his tent when his execution was about to take place. Meanwhile Streyer, who's bankrolling the Arab revolt,is getting sick and tired of the good Sheik David stalling the revolt and during a heated exchange with him pulls a gun out and shots him dead.
With now the German controlled Sheik Ibrahim in charge the Arabs revolt and storm the city of El-Mocha but all of a sudden the dead Sheik David appears alive and calls for peace not war with the British. It was a medal that David had on him, that was handed down to him by his father who it was handed to by his grandfather, that was very close to his heart that took Streyer's bullet thus saving his life.
The shocked Sheik Ibrahim, as well as Streyer, pulls a gun out to shoot David but is shot and killed by Malone who beat him to the draw, Ibrahim was so slow in pulling out his gun that by the time he pulled the trigger the movie would have long been over.
Streyer running into his office is shot and killed, off screen, by none other the the clownish Paryakarkus who turned to be an undercover agent for US military intelligence and just like that the Arab revolt was over.
I found the American reporter in the movie Mike Malone really annoying the way he acted as if he knew the outcome of the movie, by reading the script ahead of time, and saw that nothing would happen to him and thus acted accordingly, like a first class jerk, and almost got all the good guys in the movie "A Yank in Lybia" killed.