Sands of the Desert

Overview

In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Cast

Charlie Drake

Charlie Sands

Peter Arne

Sheikh El Jabez

Sarah Branch

Janet Brown

Raymond Huntley

Bossom

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Rebecca Dignam

Nerima

Peter Illing

Sheikh Ibrahim

Harold Kasket

Abdulla

Marne Maitland

Advisor to Sheikh

Neil McCarthy

Hassan

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Derek Sydney

Mamud