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Review: A great film of four peoples' war. A minor story in the broad scale of the Second World War, as two British soldiers, a nurse and a South African they pick up along the way, attempt to flee the German advance on Tobruk across the Sahara desert in a rusty old jeep. This is a story of those people's triumph against adversity and eventualy the only enemy they fight is the desert as they bond together to overcome immense natural problems to acheive their goal. Spine tingling moments are firstly, the end in the bar in Alexandria; secondly, the "push up the hill scene" and my own personal favourite, when the South African (Anthony Quayle) lifts up the stricken jeep on his own shoulders and John Mills says "that's the best bloody effort you'll ever see". He could say the same about this excellent war film. |
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