Ice Cold in Alex (1958) *solved*

[sg1ghost]

Film goes men/soldiers trying to get a vehicle/truck up a hill in the desert NOT FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX cheers in advance

[MrDrakesDuck]

Ice Cold in Alex (1958)

[ted]

(MrDrakesDuck @ Oct 18 2005, 10:48 PM)

Ice Cold in Alex (1958)

Yes, they took out the spark plugs and cranked the truck up the bill. Thirsty work.



Ted, Ottawa

[moviemaniac]

I Know the film An Ambulance and a NIce girl That Sort Of thing, but could not remember who was in it.!!!!!!!!!

[Kev]

John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms.

[sg1ghost]

Thank You

[cityfairy]

First of all sorry for my bad english, i am german...



Yesterday my father told me about a movie he watched when he was a young boy and now i try to find out the name...



He told me that he watched it in western Germany TV around 1970 and that it was about WW2



The Movie is about some (maybe four) soldiers in the desert. They collect a German, but do not know he is German... a lot of situations happen in which the German could sabotage the others but does not so... ( if it helps, my father said the german was a radio operator)

In the end, the others find out that the german is german but when they got out of the desert, they first go to a "pub" to drink a beer, and when "police" came to arrest the german the others say, that they first have to drink the beer...



I hope somebody has an idea which movie this could be, because my father really really liked it and told me that he had not seen again sine the 1970's...

[DB7]

Ice Cold in Alex.

[cityfairy]

Yes.. the description sounds exactly like i am looking for -- wow o.O



thank you so very much!!! *Easter present*

[smudge]

name='cityfairy']Yes.. the description sounds exactly like i am looking for -- wow o.O



thank you so very much!!! *Easter present*

That'll be a good Easter then !



SMUDGE

[Lord Brett]

name='cityfairy']First of all sorry for my bad english, i am german...

Sein English ist ziemlich gut. Viel besser als mein schrecklich Deutch!

[Moor Larkin]

name='Lord Brett']Sein English ist ziemlich gut. Viel besser als mein schrecklich Deutch!

Pugh! Keep a close eye on this big fellow.



Yessir, Captain Anson

[Wolfgang]

name='cityfairy']First of all sorry for my bad english, i am german...

Do not worry about it - I bet our English is better than their German!

[JamesM]

name='Wolfgang']Do not worry about it - I bet our English is better than their German!

Voraussichlicht

[Marky B]

name='Moor Larkin']Pugh! Keep a close eye on this big fellow.



Yessir, Captain Anson

Poor old John Mills,had to drink real Carlsberg lager and had to do a few takes and was three sheets in the wind by the end of filming. All in the name of art .

Ta Ta

Marky B

[hankoler]

Its ice cold in alex with john mills .

[Lord Brett]

name='Lord Brett']Sein English ist ziemlich gut. Viel besser als mein schrecklich Deutch!

My German is even worse than I thought. I meant to type Ihrer English ist ziemlich gut. Viel besser als mein schrecklich Deutch!

[Automotivehistorian]

The "Austin K2/Y" aka "Katie" ambulance was in fact not quite what it seems! It was evidently the body of a former wartime ambulance mounted on a former military 4x4 chassis! Anthony Quayle of course played a supposed South African who was in fact an enemy agent. A genuine K2/Y was captured by the Afrika Corps and then used by them until it was recaptured and then sent back to Britain.



My father who was out in Palestine, Trans-Jordan and then Egypt in the Royal Army Medical Corps loves the film. However the beer they drank was Stella. Not the lovely Belgian drink but some local brew. When suspicions arose as to its contents the RAMC labroratories tested it and found it was in fact chemicals added together!

[Nick Dando]

name='Automotivehistorian']My father who was out in Palestine, Trans-Jordan and then Egypt in the Royal Army Medical Corps loves the film. However the beer they drank was Stella. Not the lovely Belgian drink but some local brew. When suspicions arose as to its contents the RAMC labroratories tested it and found it was in fact chemicals added together!

Things haven't changed with British-brewed Stella beer then!



Nick

[Freddy]

name='Automotivehistorian']

My father who was out in Palestine, Trans-Jordan and then Egypt in the Royal Army Medical Corps loves the film. However the beer they drank was Stella. Not the lovely Belgian drink but some local brew. When suspicions arose as to its contents the RAMC labroratories tested it and found it was in fact chemicals added together!

My father was in the RAMC during the desert war and was driving an ambulance when he was wounded. Although my dad took me to see many films, watching Ice Cold In Alex with him on a Sunday afternoon was always special.



Freddy