Station Six - Sahara (1963)
Country: GB/GER
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: Hansjörg Felmy, Peter van Eyck, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott
Synopsis:
A new employee arrives at an oil pipeline pumping station in the Sahara Desert, and he almost immediately challenges the authority of the autocratic chief of operations there. When a dysfunctional American couple crash-land out of the desert in their car one night, the attractive wife provides a new focus for the unspoken rivalry between the two men.
Review:
A fascinating film in a number of ways, not terribly well made, but with an irresistible set-up of the sultry blonde surrounded by beleaguered males. The weakness is the relationship between the married couple (Biff McGuire not terribly good here), but there are things going on between the two Germans ('Are you a good German or a bad German?', Kramer asks) and Bannen's Scotch wide boy's baiting of Elliott's public school educated, El-Alamein commissioned milksop is a joy to behold. Quite daring in its day, it being quite clear that Baker is letting them have their way with her. The film starts and ends with the 'meat wagon' of prostitutes paying its appointed visit, and with a dead body being removed, of course. Great set exterior, too, like a ghost town, shot in Libya, though the interiors at Shepperton look far too cool!
Country: GB/GER
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: Hansjörg Felmy, Peter van Eyck, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott
Synopsis:
A new employee arrives at an oil pipeline pumping station in the Sahara Desert, and he almost immediately challenges the authority of the autocratic chief of operations there. When a dysfunctional American couple crash-land out of the desert in their car one night, the attractive wife provides a new focus for the unspoken rivalry between the two men.
Review:
A fascinating film in a number of ways, not terribly well made, but with an irresistible set-up of the sultry blonde surrounded by beleaguered males. The weakness is the relationship between the married couple (Biff McGuire not terribly good here), but there are things going on between the two Germans ('Are you a good German or a bad German?', Kramer asks) and Bannen's Scotch wide boy's baiting of Elliott's public school educated, El-Alamein commissioned milksop is a joy to behold. Quite daring in its day, it being quite clear that Baker is letting them have their way with her. The film starts and ends with the 'meat wagon' of prostitutes paying its appointed visit, and with a dead body being removed, of course. Great set exterior, too, like a ghost town, shot in Libya, though the interiors at Shepperton look far too cool!
Country: GB/GER
Technical: bw 101m
Director: Seth Holt
Cast: Hansjörg Felmy, Peter van Eyck, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott
Synopsis:
A new employee arrives at an oil pipeline pumping station in the Sahara Desert, and he almost immediately challenges the authority of the autocratic chief of operations there. When a dysfunctional American couple crash-land out of the desert in their car one night, the attractive wife provides a new focus for the unspoken rivalry between the two men.
Review:
A fascinating film in a number of ways, not terribly well made, but with an irresistible set-up of the sultry blonde surrounded by beleaguered males. The weakness is the relationship between the married couple (Biff McGuire not terribly good here), but there are things going on between the two Germans ('Are you a good German or a bad German?', Kramer asks) and Bannen's Scotch wide boy's baiting of Elliott's public school educated, El-Alamein commissioned milksop is a joy to behold. Quite daring in its day, it being quite clear that Baker is letting them have their way with her. The film starts and ends with the 'meat wagon' of prostitutes paying its appointed visit, and with a dead body being removed, of course. Great set exterior, too, like a ghost town, shot in Libya, though the interiors at Shepperton look far too cool!