
97 minutes
9/22/1943
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

Humphrey Bogart
as Sgt. Joe Gunn

Bruce Bennett
as Waco Hoyt

J. Carrol Naish
as Giuseppe

Lloyd Bridges
as Fred Clarkson

Rex Ingram
as Sgt. Maj. Tambul

Richard Aherne
as Capt. Jason Halliday

Dan Duryea
as Jimmy Doyle

Carl Harbord
as Marty Williams

Patrick O'Moore
as Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates
Louis Mercier
as Jean Leroux - 'Frenchie'
Guy Kingsford
as Peter Stegman

Kurt Kreuger
as Capt. von Schletow

John Wengraf
as Maj. von Falken

Louis Adlon
as Soldier (uncredited)
Niels Bagge
as German Private (uncredited)
Walter Bonn
as Soldier (uncredited)
Frederic Brunn
as German Private (uncredited)
Leslie Denison
as British Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Dyne
as British Soldier (uncredited)
Carl Ekberg
as Sniper (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
as British Soldier (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson
as British Officer (uncredited)

Frank Lackteen
as Sheik Ali (uncredited)

Peter Lawford
as British Soldier (uncredited)

Nelson Leigh
as British Soldier (uncredited)
Anthony Marsh
as Soldier (uncredited)
John Meredith
as Soldier (uncredited)

George N. Neise
as British Sergeant (uncredited)

Otto Reichow
as German Captain (uncredited)

Henry Rowland
as Captured German Private (uncredited)
John Royce
as Soldier (uncredited)
Hans Schumm
as Sgt. Krause (uncredited)
Robert R. Stephenson
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Walter Thiele
as Sniper (uncredited)

Frederick Worlock
as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Vilmos Gyimes
as Sergeant (uncredited)