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The Black Tent

6.4(8)19561h 33m2

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

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English
  • libya
  • world war ii
  • vistavision

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  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG9 Apr 1956

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The Black Tent was released on 9 April 1956.

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    John Chard

    3/9/2015

    5/10

    Well it's more multi-coloured than black. But I'm just being facetious! Brian Desmond Hurst directs, Anthony Steel and André Morell star, Bryan Forbes and Robin Maugham write, William Alwyn scores the music and Desmond Dickinson photographs in VistaVision Technicolor. It looks lovely, the Libya locations amazing, yet it's a dull and uneventful movie. Story concerns Capt. David Holland (Steel), who during WW…

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