Hotel Sahara

Hotel Sahara
US film poster
Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	George Hambley Brown
Written by	George Hambley Brown Patrick Kirwan
Starring	Yvonne De Carlo Peter Ustinov David Tomlinson Roland Culver
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	David Harcourt Jack Hildyard
Edited by	Alfred Roome
Distributed by	General Film Distributors (UK) United Artists (US)
Release dates	1951
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Hotel Sahara is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David Tomlinson. It was produced and co-written by George Hambley Brown.

Plot

A luxury hotel in the Sahara Desert faces occupation and destruction from a number of armies during the North African Campaign. The hotel is saved through the quick thinking and chameleon actions of the four headed staff in particular the owner Yasmin, who dresses, sings, and dances in a manner to make all the conquerors appreciate her charms.

Production

George Hambley Brown knew Peter Ustinov from their time together in the RAF Film Unit during World War II. After the war the two co-produced School for Secrets and Vice Versa. Based on some of his experiences in the Western Desert Campaign, Brown sought Yvonne De Carlo for the role of Yasmin by writing her and saying that he observed that she had a flair to play comedy.^[1]

Cast

Yvonne De Carlo as Yasmin Pallas
Peter Ustinov as Emad
David Tomlinson as Captain Puffin Cheyne
Roland Culver as Major Bill Randall
Albert Lieven as Lieutenant Gunther von Heilicke
Bill Owen as Private Binns
Guido Lorraine as Captain Giuseppi
Mireille Perrey as Mme. Pallas
Ferdy Mayne as Yusef
Sydney Tafler as Corporal Pullar
Eugene Deckers as a French Spahi officer
Anton Diffring as a German Soldier
Olga Lowe as Fatima

Soundtrack

Say Goodbye Soldier Boy
Music by Benjamin Frankel (as Ben Bernard)
Lyrics by Harold Purcell
Sung by Yvonne De Carlo

I Love A Man
Music by Benjamin Frankel (as Ben Bernard)
Lyrics by Harold Purcell
Sung by Yvonne De Carlo

I'll Be Seeing You
Music by Sammy Fain
Lyrics by Irving Kahal
Heard on a radio sung by Yvonne De Carlo

Early One Morning
Traditional
Sung by Yvonne De Carlo

Lillibullero
Traditional

Santa Lucia
Traditional

Notes

↑ Vallance, Tom George H. Brown Obituary The Independent 9 January 2001

External links

Hotel Sahara at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Trio (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

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