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Sands of the Desert

6.3 92 mins Comedy   1960
Associated British Picture Corporation  
Director(s): John Paddy Carstairs

In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

Casts of Sands of the Desert

Charlie Drake

as Charlie Sands

Peter Arne

as Sheikh El Jabez

Sarah Branch

as Janet Brown

Raymond Huntley

as Bossom

Rebecca Dignam

as Nerima

Peter Illing

as Sheikh Ibrahim

Harold Kasket

as Abdulla

Marne Maitland

as Advisor to Sheikh

Neil McCarthy

as Hassan

Derek Sydney

as Mamud

Alan Tilvern

as Mustafa

Martin Benson

as Selim

Eric Pohlmann

as Scrobin

Inia Te Wiata

as Fahid

Paul Stassino

as Pilot

Judith Furse

as Yasmin

Martin Boddey

as Mertons

Madge Brindley

as Fat Lady in Bus

Robert Brown

as 1st Tourist

Charles Carson

as Philpotts

Roger Delgado

as Abu Nlal

Peter Elliott

as 1st Tourist Official

Gamel Faris

as Customs Official

William Kendall

as British Consul

Tutte Lemkow

as Bus Driver

Lisa Peake

as 1st Handmaiden

Michael Peake

as 2nd Tourist Official

Beth Rogan

as Air Hostess

Kim Tracy

as 2nd Handmaiden

Irene Barrie

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Jim Brady

as Arab (uncredited)

Sally Douglas

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

Eddie Frewin

as Arab Driver (uncredited)

Mia Karam

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Roy Stewart

as Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)

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