Sands of the Desert | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
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Produced by | Gordon Scott |
Starring | Charlie Drake |
Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
Edited by | Richard Best |
Music by | Stanley Black |
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Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 8 September 1960 (UK) |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Sands of the Desert is a 1960 British adventure comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Charlie Drake in his first lead role in a feature film, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch and Raymond Huntley.
Charlie Sands, a British travel agent is sent to run a holiday camp in the Arabian Peninsula after his predecessor is assassinated because the property is sitting on a potential oilfield.[1]
Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960.[2]
TV Guide described it as "a mildly amusing comedy that never really delivers its laugh quota, due primarily to its uneven script. Drake, a popular British television comic of the day, is good, though the movies are clearly not his metier."[3]