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Based on a script by Robin Maugham and Bryan Forbes, The Black Tent is a wartime romance mystery starring Anthony Steel as British officer Capt David Holland, who finds war and love in the Libyan desert. When Holland doesn't return to reclaim his vast estates in Britain after the war, his family presume he is dead and his brother Sir Charles travels to Libya to find out what happened to him. His investigations lead him from the British embassy in Tripoli to a Bedouin camp, where he is given a diary by the sheikh's daughter and begins to piece together his brother's strange story.

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Adventure, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1957) (UK) (2 Star)

Cast:

Donald Sinden	.... Col. Sir Charles Holland
Anthony Steel	.... Capt. David Holland
Anna-Maria Sandri	.... Mabrouka ben Yussef

Supporting Cast:

André Morell	.... Sheik Salem ben Yussef
Terence Sharkey	.... Daoud Holland
Donald Pleasence	.... Ali
Ralph Truman	.... Major Croft
Anthony Bushell	.... Ambassador Baring
Mikey Craig	.... Sheik Faris
Paul Homer	.... Khalil ben Yussef
Anton Diffring	.... Senior Nazi Officer
Frederick Jaeger	.... Koch junior Nazi officer
Derek Sydney	.... Interpreter

Directors:

Brian Desmond-Hurst

Writers:

Bryan Forbes
Robin Maugham