Sword in the Desert

Infobox Film
name = Sword in the Desert


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director = George Sherman
producer = Robert Buckner
writer = Robert Buckner
starring = Dana Andrews
Jeff Chandler
Märta Torén
Stephen McNally
Philip Friend
music = Frank Skinner
cinematography = Irving Glassberg
editing = Otto Ludwig
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = August 24, 1949
runtime = 101 mins.
country = USA
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0050560

"Sword in the Desert" is a 1949 American war film directed by George Sherman.

Overview

The film presents the moral struggle of an American Captain, played by Dana Andrews, who ferries illegal immigrants into Palestine to fight against the British authorities there.

The "Evening Standard" claimed that the film was "not for the eyes of Britons" and the "Daily Telegraph" insisted that British audiences would be surprised to see the unwonted harshness with which the British troops in the film treated Jewish civilians. There were demonstrations and disturbances outside the New Gallery, London, when the film opened there on 2 February 1950, and pamphlets supporting the "Union Movement" were distributed to people wanting to see it. Five days later, the Public Control Committee of London Country Council followed the advice of the Home Office and prohibited further public showings of the film in order to prevent further scenes of rowdiness by what it termed fascist elements. It ignored the protest from the National Council for Civil Liberties that its action constituted a ban on free speech.

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