Sands of the Desert (1960)

5.6/10 92 min Comedy

Overview

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

Cast

Charlie Drake

Charlie Sands

Peter Arne

Sheikh El Jabez

Sarah Branch

Janet Brown

Raymond Huntley

Bossom

Peter Illing

Sheikh Ibrahim

Harold Kasket

Abdulla

Marne Maitland

Advisor to Sheikh

Neil McCarthy

Hassan

Alan Tilvern

Mustafa

Martin Benson

Selim

Eric Pohlmann

Scrobin

Inia Te Wiata

Fahid

Paul Stassino

Pilot

Judith Furse

Yasmin

Martin Boddey

Mertons

Robert Brown

1st Tourist

Charles Carson

Philpotts

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