1943 | Approved | 1h 37m | Action, Drama, War
When we think about great World War II action films, we usually don’t think of tank warfare, at least from an American perspective. Well, not until the excellent 2014 movie “Fury,” starring Brad Pitt, reminded folks that tank crews can be as heroic as anyone else. Before that anomaly, World War II films tended to focus on infantry combat, even though tank warfare was an instrumental part of the conflict.
However, in 1943, Hungarian-born director Zoltan Korda gave the world a taste of what tank crews went through with his highly entertaining drama “Sahara,” based on a 1927 novel “Patrol” by British author Philip MacDonald….