The Steel Lady

The Steel Lady a.k.a. Treasure of Kalifa is an American 1953 adventure film.

The plane crash leaves them with limited food and water, no radio, no way to repair the plane and no hope of rescue, until one of the crew sees the antenna of a German battle tank sprouting from the sands. Digging down they discover the Steel Lady of the title, complete with mummified crew, lost in the dunes ten years before, out of water, fuel, and supplies, rather like themselves.After recovering and burying the German crew, they attempt to repair their radio with parts from the Tanks radio set only marginally successful, they manage to tell the outside world that they are down and alive, but can only pass on their positions Latitude before the jury rigged radio burns out. ........

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