El Alamein: The Line of Fire (2002), 12 Strong (2018), A Far Off Place (1993), Nine Men (1943), Southwest Passage (1954), Marked Men (1940), Sahara (1983), Route 666 (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Desert Trek movies.
Storyline: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: private, lieutenant, sergeant, soldier, gritty, tense, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The True Story of the Army's Special Forces "Green Berets", who within weeks responded to the 9-11 attack. Green Berets, with the help of the 160th SOAR(A), took over the country and allowed other Special Forces and the rest of the conventional military to begin the more publicly visible war.
Plot Keywords: american soldier, enemy, horse, bleak, frenetic, intense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper's family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through two thousand kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead, they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: poacher, african, american, murder victim, teenager, colonel, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they cam be relieved.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, sergeant, british soldiers, german troops, italian soldier, nazi, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Edward Beale is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west in this 3-D western. (An actual test once conducted in the Big Bend area of Texas.) Clint MacDoanld, a bank robber one jump ahead of a posse, joins the caravan by posing as a doctor. His sweetheart, Lilly, also comes along and signs on. There is a whole lot of footage of the grueling trek across the desert, but it begins to move when mule-skinner Matt Carroll becomes aware of MacDonald's true profession and he wants the gold from the bank robbery. The Apaches have shied away from attacking the train, because of their fear of the camels, but a camel dies and the jig is up as they lose their fear and here they come.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: leader, bank robber, girlfriend, doctor, lieutenant, american indian warrior, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town. But his hopes of happiness and freedom are dashed when gangster Joe Mallon and his four henchmen show up. Mallon was the one who engineered Bill into the frame-up felony that sent him to prison along with Mallon. Bill is forced to lead Mallon and his men into an escape attempt across the blistering, sun-scorched desert.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: college graduate, wrongly accused, escaped convict, gangster, henchmen, bank robber, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, heiress, sheik, villain, melodramatic, gutsy, sahara desert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: federal agent, partner, informant, hit man, sheriff, zombie, uneasy ...
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