Sands of the Desert (1960)
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end
Sands of the DesertComedy
Cast
- Charlie Drake — Charlie Sands
- Peter Arne — Sheikh El Jabez
- Sarah Branch — Janet Brown
- Raymond Huntley — Bossom
- Rebecca Dignam — Nerima
- Peter Illing — Sheikh Ibrahim
- Harold Kasket — Abdulla
- Marne Maitland — Advisor to Sheikh
- Neil McCarthy — Hassan
- Derek Sydney — Mamud
- Alan Tilvern — Mustafa
- Martin Benson — Selim
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