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The Black Tent
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. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.
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.
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.
Colonel Sir Charles Holland receives a note at his country estate. He contacts the Foreign Office and is informed that his missing-in-action brother may still be alive in Libya. A promissory note dating from the Second World War has turned up at the British Embassy in Tripoli signed by his presumed-dead brother, who had given it to a nomadic Bedouin tribe.
Sir Charles goes to Libya, and guided into the desert by Ali in search of his brother, they track down the tribe. The chief, Sheik Salem ben Yussef, lives in a black tent. He admits to having sheltered his brother but is otherwise dismissive. However, Sir Charles spots that one of the women, Mabrouka, has a blond son of an age such that his brother could be the father. He confronts the chief, only to find the girl in question is his daughter. Sir Charles is asked to leave the camp, but the girl passes a paper to Ali. It is the diary of the brother's time in Libya.
The film then flashes back to a tank battle where blond-haired Captain Holland is sprawled unconscious beside his tank on the sand with a bad shoulder wound. When he comes to, he walks over the dunes until he collapses near a Bedouin encampment at an oasis. He is found by Mabrouka, who takes him to the camp, which consists of several black tents.
Captain Holland, having been tended by Mabrouka, recovers. He learns that Mabrouka is the sheik's daughter and is betrothed to Sheik Faris from another tribe. When a German reconnaissance vehicle arrives at the camp, Captain Holland hides in the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna. The senior German officer then finds Holland's service revolver in a tent. The chief persuades the Germans that he slit the captain's throat and kept the revolver as a souvenir.
Mabrouka and Captain Holland become romantically involved, to the obvious annoyance of Sheik Faris. He colludes with the Germans, who return to the ruins. Holland and Sheik Yussef kill them and Faris. The romance between Captain Holland and Mabrouka deepens, and they marry.
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The Black Tent
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. It is set in North Africa, during the Second World War and was filmed on location in Libya.
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.
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.
Colonel Sir Charles Holland receives a note at his country estate. He contacts the Foreign Office and is informed that his missing-in-action brother may still be alive in Libya. A promissory note dating from the Second World War has turned up at the British Embassy in Tripoli signed by his presumed-dead brother, who had given it to a nomadic Bedouin tribe.
Sir Charles goes to Libya, and guided into the desert by Ali in search of his brother, they track down the tribe. The chief, Sheik Salem ben Yussef, lives in a black tent. He admits to having sheltered his brother but is otherwise dismissive. However, Sir Charles spots that one of the women, Mabrouka, has a blond son of an age such that his brother could be the father. He confronts the chief, only to find the girl in question is his daughter. Sir Charles is asked to leave the camp, but the girl passes a paper to Ali. It is the diary of the brother's time in Libya.
The film then flashes back to a tank battle where blond-haired Captain Holland is sprawled unconscious beside his tank on the sand with a bad shoulder wound. When he comes to, he walks over the dunes until he collapses near a Bedouin encampment at an oasis. He is found by Mabrouka, who takes him to the camp, which consists of several black tents.
Captain Holland, having been tended by Mabrouka, recovers. He learns that Mabrouka is the sheik's daughter and is betrothed to Sheik Faris from another tribe. When a German reconnaissance vehicle arrives at the camp, Captain Holland hides in the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna. The senior German officer then finds Holland's service revolver in a tent. The chief persuades the Germans that he slit the captain's throat and kept the revolver as a souvenir.
Mabrouka and Captain Holland become romantically involved, to the obvious annoyance of Sheik Faris. He colludes with the Germans, who return to the ruins. Holland and Sheik Yussef kill them and Faris. The romance between Captain Holland and Mabrouka deepens, and they marry.