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'Cubby' Broccoli, and written by Richard Maibaum, the original director, producer and writer of the James Bond films. The 25th James Bond film, 2021's No Time to Die, shares a title with this film, which was directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. When the film was initially released in the United States, it was 20 minutes shorter than the version released in the United Kingdom. Kinematograph Weekly listed it as being 'in the money' at the British box office in 1958. It was the last in a seven-picture commitment between Warwick and Columbia. Sean Kelly was a South African actor who had been signed by Warwick to a seven-year contract. In the opening battle Leo Genn commands an AEC Armoured Car and wears the beret of the Cherry Pickers. No Time to Die featured authentic war time Cromwell tanks as well as post-war Centurions and Charioteers as both British and German tanks. The Queens Bays Tank Regiment assisted in production of the film. In September, Mature left England for six weeks of location filming in the Libyan Desert, near Tripoli. In August 1957 Victor Mature signed a two-picture contract with Warwick, No Time to Die and The Man Inside. Jeff Chandler turned down the role (and fee of $200,000). Van Johnson, who had just made a film with Young, was a leading contender.

In April 1957 Terence Young arrived in Hollywood to find two American leading men for the film.

Īlan Ladd was mentioned as a possibility as star. The script eventually became about five Allied soldiers, two Englishmen, a Pole, an American and an Australian, who escape an Italian POW camp in the Second World War. In March 1957 Merle Miller was hired to rewrite the script. Sy Bartlett was assigned to write the script. Warwick Productions bought the film rights in 1955 and tried to get Montgomery Clift to star. The film was initially based on a 1954 novel of the same name by Ronald Kemp, but later received a different script unrelated to the novel with the exception of the title and the setting. The German panzers are defeated, and Thatcher and Noakes bury Kendall. However, a British tank battalion arrives to save them.

They capture a tank, but Kendall and the Pole are killed while their tank is disabled. They steal a truck, which is met by a rival group of Bedouins which warn them of a nearby German panzer division. Kendall takes the sheikh and the SS colonel ( Martin Boddey) hostage, but he Pole initiates a shootout that leaves him wounded and the sheikh and the colonel dead. When the SS tries to torture Thatcher into confessing, Captain Ritter becomes so disgusted that he helps the men escape and then commits suicide. After Kendall vows to court-martial the Pole when they return home, he allows a Bedouin tribe led by a sheikh ( Maxwell Shaw) loyal to the SS to kill Bartlett and capture the surviving men. Over the course of the trip the Pole grows increasingly homicidal, indiscriminately killing two German officers the group captures. They escape through the Libyan Desert in sandstorms, briefly taking shelter at the nightclub of Thatcher's friend Carola ( Luciana Paluzzi) in Italian-occupied Benghazi before she is accidentally shot by the Italian officer Alberto ( Robert Rietti).

Kendall arranges an escape of Thatcher, Noakes, Bartlett (Sean Kelly), and a Polish prisoner ( Bonar Colleano) in an ambulance before the Schutzstaffel can detain Thatcher, and the Pole kills the German mole Johnson (Kenneth Fortescue). Unbeknownst to the Axis prison guards, Thatcher had previously tried to assassinate Joseph Goebbels in revenge for the killing of his Jewish wife and tries to escape at every turn before the Nazis discover his secret. The three survivors are quickly captured and transported to an Italian POW camp run by German Army Captain Ritter ( Alfred Burke). Kendall ( Leo Genn), becomes stuck in the sand and the crew bail out too. The squadron's attached reconnaissance vehicle, commanded by Sgt.

#Film tank force 1958 driver

David Thatcher ( Victor Mature) is hit and he and driver Trooper 'Tiger' Noakes ( Anthony Newley) bail out. In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers.