An unfairly underrated movie, the rating of which not reflecting its genuine qualities.
The screenplay is brilliantly constructed, and may baffle the viewer ;when the movie begings ,Sinden seems to play the principal ,but after some twenty minutes,Anthony Steele becomes the true star ; his diary is a good idea. The returns to present are rare but thoroughly relevant ;till the very end ,one does not know what has become of the missing brother .
Falsely called "war movie", it's closer to melodramatic exotic adventures ; WW2 is only a background and the historical events are only tidings (Rommel's victory , then El Alamein) ; the German intervenes in the Bedouin's camp and the director takes advantage of the ruins (the film almost entirely filmed on location) but it only leads to a small ambush.
The essential concerns the relationship between a handsome British officer and a gorgeous bedouin girl;Please do not compare it to epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia " ; its purpose is to depict the huge gap between the Bedouins' humble life and the British civilization ,which creates the final dilemma. It may delude for some time ,when David asks the girl to follow her in his land of pastures of plenty ,but would have it been possible even if......?
The screenplay is brilliantly constructed, and may baffle the viewer ;when the movie begings ,Sinden seems to play the principal ,but after some twenty minutes,Anthony Steele becomes the true star ; his diary is a good idea. The returns to present are rare but thoroughly relevant ;till the very end ,one does not know what has become of the missing brother .
Falsely called "war movie", it's closer to melodramatic exotic adventures ; WW2 is only a background and the historical events are only tidings (Rommel's victory , then El Alamein) ; the German intervenes in the Bedouin's camp and the director takes advantage of the ruins (the film almost entirely filmed on location) but it only leads to a small ambush.
The essential concerns the relationship between a handsome British officer and a gorgeous bedouin girl;Please do not compare it to epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia " ; its purpose is to depict the huge gap between the Bedouins' humble life and the British civilization ,which creates the final dilemma. It may delude for some time ,when David asks the girl to follow her in his land of pastures of plenty ,but would have it been possible even if......?