Storyline

In Fascist Italy pre-World War II, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Benito Mussolini to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab nation. However, his troops are frequently defeated by the national leader Omar Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins. But the Butcher of Ethiopia and Libya uses a dirty war against the natives, slaughtering women, children, and aged people, to subdue Mukhtar.

Plot Keywords

arab, muslim, rebel, world war two, 1920s, 1930s, execution, death of protagonist, epic, desert, crushed to death, ambush, ends with death, fascism, death of title character, rome italy, loss of father, bound in chains, camel, based on real people

Short Review

Lion of the Desert is a canny film, though it's probably a film from which one will take just what one took into it. No expense has been spared.

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