6 votes
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

Status: Released
Released Date: 1960-09-08
Runtime: 92 mins
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy
Original title: Sands of the Desert
Production Companies: Associated British Picture Corporation
Production Countries: United Kingdom

Charlie Drake

Peter Arne

Sarah Branch

Raymond Huntley

Rebecca Dignam

Peter Illing

Harold Kasket

Marne Maitland

Neil McCarthy

Derek Sydney

Alan Tilvern

Martin Benson

Eric Pohlmann

Inia Te Wiata