Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 132m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: John Mills, Harry Andrews, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A beleaguered army field ambulance in North Africa during WW2 must cross the desert and make it back to Allied lines at Alexandria, picking up a spy along the way.
Review:
Fondly remembered war adventure, filmed in Libya; Thompson would make a similar film the following year in North West Frontier. The cast do brilliantly in what must have been arduous conditions, and it is essentially a road movie punctuated by shafts of danger while the characters get to know one another in their shared ordeal. As such it was a great example for European cooperation, unlike so many war films which either perpetuated or parodied the old enmities.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 132m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: John Mills, Harry Andrews, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A beleaguered army field ambulance in North Africa during WW2 must cross the desert and make it back to Allied lines at Alexandria, picking up a spy along the way.
Review:
Fondly remembered war adventure, filmed in Libya; Thompson would make a similar film the following year in North West Frontier. The cast do brilliantly in what must have been arduous conditions, and it is essentially a road movie punctuated by shafts of danger while the characters get to know one another in their shared ordeal. As such it was a great example for European cooperation, unlike so many war films which either perpetuated or parodied the old enmities.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 132m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: John Mills, Harry Andrews, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle
Synopsis:
A beleaguered army field ambulance in North Africa during WW2 must cross the desert and make it back to Allied lines at Alexandria, picking up a spy along the way.
Review:
Fondly remembered war adventure, filmed in Libya; Thompson would make a similar film the following year in North West Frontier. The cast do brilliantly in what must have been arduous conditions, and it is essentially a road movie punctuated by shafts of danger while the characters get to know one another in their shared ordeal. As such it was a great example for European cooperation, unlike so many war films which either perpetuated or parodied the old enmities.