"starring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry
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Ice Cold in Alex starring John Mills, Sylvia Sims and Anthony Quayle |
Review
The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the
heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in
Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields
and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North
African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the
campaigns featured in The
Desert Fox and The
Desert Rats, and a disparate group in a military
ambulance - which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a
beautiful nurse to add tension of another - must make an epic journey to
safety. The terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will
survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels.
Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French
masterpiece, The
Wages of Fear and handles both the character drama and
set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war
adventure, The
Guns of Navarone, also starring Anthony Quayle, who then
returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence
of Arabia.
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