Sands of the Desert

Sands of the Desert
Original UK quad poster
Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Gordon Scott
Written by	John Paddy Carstairs (screenplay) Charlie Drake (additional dialogue)
Story by	Anne Burnaby Stafford Byrne Robert Hall
Starring	Charlie Drake
Music by	Stanley Black
Cinematography	Gilbert Taylor
Edited by	Richard Best
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Warner-Pathé Distributors(UK)
Release dates	8 September 1960 (UK)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Sands of the Desert is a 1960 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Charlie Drake, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch and Raymond Huntley. A British travel agent gets mixed up in trouble in the Arabian Peninsula.^[1]

Cast

Charlie Drake - Charlie Sands
Peter Arne - Sheikh El Jabez
Sarah Branch - Janet Brown
Raymond Huntley - Bossom
Rebecca Dignam - Nerima
Peter Illing - Sheikh Ibrahim
Harold Kasket - Abdullah
Marne Maitland - Advisor to Sheikh
Neil McCarthy - Hassan
Derek Sydney - Mamud
Alan Tilvern - Mustafa
Martin Benson - Selin
Eric Pohlmann - Scrobin
Inia Te Wiata - Fahid
Paul Stassino - Pilot

Critical reception

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." ^[2]

References

↑ "Sands of the Desert (1960)". BFI.
↑ "Sands Of The Desert". TVGuide.com.

External links

Sands of the Desert at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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