Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand is a 1949 adventuresuspense film noir produced by Hal Wallis and directed by William Dieterle. Set in South West Africa, the film stars Wallis contract star Burt Lancaster and three stars from Walliss Casablanca Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. The film introduces Corinne Calvet, and features Sam Jaffe, John Bromfield and Kenny Washington in supporting roles. Desert portions of the film were shot in Yuma, Arizona.

When Davis returns to find the diamonds hes hidden away, the companys owner, Martingale Claude Rains, tries a different tactic by hiring a beautiful woman, Suzanne Renaud Corinne Calvet, to seduce Davis and find out where the diamonds can be found. Davis meanwhile plans an illegal entry into the diamond mining area to retrieve the diamonds and plans to escape to Portuguese Angola.According to the Paramount Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS library, the desert sequences were shot in Yuma, Arizona. ........

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