Sea of Sand

Richard Attenborough - Brody
Vincent Ball - Sgt. Nesbitt
Michael Craig - Capt,. Cotton
Andrew Faulds - Sgt. Parker
Barry Foster - Cpl. Matheson
Wolf Frees - German Sergeant
Harold Goodwin - Road Watch
John Gregson - Capt. Williams

Gritty WWII action film based on an original story by Sean Fielding, but there is nothing very original about the screenplay. It’s a routine war adventure shot entirely on location in Tripolitania, Libya, with excellent all-round acting by well drawn characters and taut direction by Guy Green. Cameraman Wilkie Cooper splendidly captures the remote loneliness of the vast desert, the searing heat, the intense boredom and the sense of pending danger.

North Africa 1943, on the eve of El Alamein, the Long Range Desert Group’s Y Patrol is given the arduous task of going behind enemy lines to blow up one of the Africa Korps largest fuel dumps. The mission is accomplished but the nine men have to fight their way back to base, but the unruly units ill-discipline brings inexperienced by-the-book leader Capt. Williams (John Gregson) into conflict with clued-up veteran Capt. Cotton (Michael Craig).