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...France. A freighter, bound from New Caledonia for Marseille, is captained by a brave and gentle Frenchman (Victor Francen). One of his passengers (Sydney Greenstreet) is a professional soldier and a Fascist. An air corps officer (Claude Rains) is blithely unconcerned when he realizes that five derelicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias) whom the ship picks up are fugitives from Devil's Island. They have escaped in order to fight for France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Humphrey Bogart has a new type of role with sand replacing Greenstreet as the inscrutable foe, and he show his appreciation of the change by turning in what is distinctly one of his best performances in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...Humphrey Bogart's box-office appeal may be what Columbia depended on in making "Sahara," but they have put him into an exciting and quite credible picture. Bogart, himself, doesn't stand out as he did in "Casablanca." A tough story, it uses the old desert themes (we had to go out for a drink twice) with a Rommel-El Alamein background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...story is a combination of a lot of old ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Bogart reaches a lonely water-hole and tries to trick a thirsty (water-thirsty this time) German battalion into surrender, although the well has run dry. The trick doesn't quite work, and our team has to fight it out. Most of them get killed, but Hairbreadth Humphrey and another Yank capture what is left of 500 Germans. It all sounds like a Hollywood fairy tale, but is staged convincingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

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