Sea of Sand (film)

Sea of Sand released in the US as Desert Patrol is a 1958 war film starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. The film, which was directed by Guy Green, is about a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group LRDG during the North African Campaign in the Second World War. It was shot on location in the Kingdom of Libya.

The mission, which begins with five Chevroletcwt trucks, starts with a perilous journey through Axisoccupied Libya where the LRDG encounter Luftwaffe spotter planes and Africa Korps patrols. Six of their men are killed and two of their Chevrolets are destroyed by a German armoured car. On reaching the German supply depot, Williams does his job and creates a path through the minefield with the help of Corporal Mathieson. The rest of the group destroys the stocks of petrol but Sergeant Hardy is killed in the escape. However hidden within the dump is a large number of German panzers. Unfortunately Cotton cannot report this to base because the radio is smashed in a German ambush, during which Blanco White is wounded in the leg.Knowing the importance of the information, the group knows they must return and report it to base while there is time for it to be acted upon. During their return journey they are relentlessly pursued by a German officer determined to stop them. When two halftracks attack them Cotton is wounded in the arm and Sergeant Nesbitt is killed. Eventually with justmiles to go to the Allied base the last truck runs out of fuel. Blanco volunteers to stay behind and man a Vickers machine gun, Brody offers to stay with his friend but Cotton says Everyone who can goes on. While the others head towards base, Blanco sacrifices himself slowing up the last pursuing German halftrack. ........

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