Plot summary

It is a good WWII movie especially considering it was filmed well before the outcome of the war in North Africa was known. Bogart's character "Sarge" and a number of familiar faces from Hollywood's Golden Era form a multi-national bunch of survivors of the illfated North Africa Campaign clinging to a Sherman tank (Lulabell) clinging to her last treads. As Bogart and his American crew head south to regroup with allied forces they collect the aforementioned British, Free French and other retreating allied foot soldiers. Bogart's bunch even in retreat take an Italian soldier and a Nazi fighter pilot as POWs. The desert is in a drought even by the Sahara's standards and soon they are being chased by a superior force Nazis in a race to get to the only meager water well within hundreds of miles. The action is well filmed and the "nationalism" is well restrained for wartime Hollywood. The film is a surprising gem and worth the watch.—chcarr-44-976134