The Black Tent
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The Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence.[3] It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.
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Directed by | Brian Desmond Hurst |
Written by | Bryan Forbes Robin Maugham |
Based on | story The Promissory NOte by Robin Maugham |
Produced by | William Macquitty executive Earl St. John |
Starring | Donald Sinden Anthony Steel Anna Maria Sandri André Morell Donald Pleasence |
Edited by | Alfred Roome |
Music by | William Alwyn |
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Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors of America |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £223,000[1] |
Box office | 1,351,181 admissions (France)[2] |
During the British retreat through Libya, British officer Captain David Holland takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter. After the war his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, learns that he may be alive in Libya – prompting him to set out and search for him.
Along with Bengazi (1955), The Black Tent is one of the few feature films set in the last days of the British Military Administration of Libya from 1945 to 1951.[4]