Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
- libya
- world war ii
- tank
- sergeant
- desert
- desert warfare
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Rex Ingram — Sgt. Maj. Tambul
- Richard Aherne — Capt. Jason Halliday
- Dan Duryea — Jimmy Doyle
- Carl Harbord — Marty Williams
- Patrick O'Moore — Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates
- Louis Mercier — Jean Leroux - 'Frenchie'
- Guy Kingsford — Peter Stegman
- Kurt Kreuger — Capt. von Schletow
- John Wengraf — Maj. von Falken
- Louis Adlon — Soldier (uncredited)
- Niels Bagge — German Private (uncredited)
- Directed
- Zoltan Korda
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 157 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
