Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A tense engrossing adventure set in the 1942 Libyan war zone in the hot Western Desert A British ambulance officer (John Mills) escapes the siege in Tobruk & tries desperately to get his passengers to safety in Alexandria where he dreams he will have the luxury of an &ice cold& glass of beer His passengers include a stranded hospital nurse a Sergeant-Major & a stray South African Officer trying to return to his unit Despite saving the group from the Germans something is not quite right about the last passenger As he begins to undermine the group&s stamina using psychological tactics the British officer begins to suspect he might be a German spy Actors John Mills Anthony Quayle Sylvia Syms Harry Andrews Richard Leech Peter Arne Walter Gotell & Michael Nightingale Director J Lee Thompson Certificate PGYear 1958 Languages English