Donald Sinden Anthony Steel Anna Maria Sandri André Morell Donald Pleasence
Edited by
Alfred Roome
Music by
William Alwyn
Production company
Rank Organisation
Distributed by
Rank Film Distributors of America
Release date
6 April 1956 (1956-04-06) (UK)
Running time
93 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£223,000[1]
Box office
1,351,181 admissions (France)[2]
The Black Tent is a 1956 British war film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell and Donald Pleasence.[3] It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.
During the British retreat through Libya, British officer Captain David Holland takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter. After the war his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, learns that he may be alive in Libya – prompting him to set out and search for him.
Along with Bengazi (1955), The Black Tent is one of the few feature films set in the last days of the British Military Administration of Libya from 1945 to 1951.[4]
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^French box office for 1956 at Box Office Story
^"The Black Tent". IMDb.
^Voeltz, Richard Andrew (2018). "The Black Tent (1956) and Bengazi (1955): The Image of Arabs in Two post-Empire Journeys into the Deserts of Libya". CINEJ Cinema Journal. 7 (1). University Library System, University of Pittsburgh: 169–188. doi:10.5195/cinej.2018.200. ISSN 2158-8724. S2CID 192366468.
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