Sands of the Desert
1960 British film
- John Paddy Carstairs (screenplay)
- Charlie Drake (additional dialogue)
- Anne Burnaby
- Stafford Byrne
- Robert Hall
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Release date
- 8 September 1960 (1960-09-08) (UK)
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Sands of the Desert is a 1960 British adventure comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Charlie Drake in his first lead role in a feature film, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch and Raymond Huntley.
Premise
Charlie Sands, a British travel agent is sent to run a holiday camp in the Arabian Peninsula after his predecessor is assassinated because the property is sitting on a potential oilfield.[1]
Cast
- Charlie Drake as Charlie Sands
- Peter Arne as Sheikh El Jabez
- Sarah Branch as Janet Brown
- Raymond Huntley as Bossom
- Rebecca Dignam as Nerima
- Peter Illing as Sheikh Ibrahim
- Harold Kasket as Abdullah
- Marne Maitland as Advisor to Sheikh
- Neil McCarthy as Hassan
- Derek Sydney as Mamud
- Alan Tilvern as Mustafa
- Martin Benson as Selin
- Eric Pohlmann as Scrobin
- Inia Te Wiata as Fahid
- Paul Stassino as Pilot
- Beth Rogan as Air Hostess
Box office
Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960.[2]
Critical reception
TV Guide described it as "a mildly amusing comedy that never really delivers its laugh quota, due primarily to its uneven script. Drake, a popular British television comic of the day, is good, though the movies are clearly not his metier."[3]
References
External links
- Sands of the Desert at IMDb
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Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs
- Paris Plane (1933)
- Double Exposures (1937)
- Night Ride (1937)
- Missing, Believed Married (1937)
- Holiday's End (1937)
- Incident in Shanghai (1938)
- Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
- The Saint in London (1939)
- Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
- The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
- Spare a Copper (1940)
- He Found a Star (1941)
- Dancing with Crime (1947)
- Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
- Fools Rush In (1949)
- The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
- Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
- Talk of a Million (1951)
- Treasure Hunt (1952)
- Made in Heaven (1952)
- Top of the Form (1953)
- Trouble in Store (1953)
- Up to His Neck (1954)
- One Good Turn (1955)
- Man of the Moment (1955)
- Jumping for Joy (1956)
- Up in the World (1956)
- The Big Money (1956)
- Just My Luck (1957)
- The Square Peg (1959)
- Tommy the Toreador (1959)
- Sands of the Desert (1960)
- A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
- The Devil's Agent (1962)
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