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''Sahara'' is a 1943 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Creator/HumphreyBogart as Master Sergeant Joe Gunn (and an M3 Lee tank named ''[[ICallItVera Lulubelle]]'').
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''Sahara'' is a 1943 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Creator/HumphreyBogart as Master Sergeant Joe Gunn (and and an M3 Lee tank named ''[[ICallItVera Lulubelle]]'').
Lulubelle]]''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: There were indeed American advisors -- with M3 Lees -- present in North Africa before Operation Torch.
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* DueToTheDead: Both the original and remake versions of the film end with shots of the graves of the fallen protagonists (the original showing said shots over Gunn's final lines saying their names and "we stopped them (the Nazis) at El Alamein"), the remake accompanied by Gunn's voice narrating Lawrence Binyon's poem "For The Fallen").
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* DueToTheDead: Both the original and remake versions of the film end with shots of the graves of the fallen protagonists (the original showing said shots over Gunn's final lines saying their names and "we stopped them (the Nazis) at El Alamein"), the remake accompanied by Gunn's voice narrating Lawrence Laurence Binyon's poem "For The Fallen").
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* DueToTheDead: Both the original and remake versions of the film end with shots of the graves of the fallen protagonists (the original showing said shots over Gunn's final lines saying their names and "we stopped them (the Nazis) at El Alamein"), the remake only accompanied by the closing soundtrack).
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* DueToTheDead: Both the original and remake versions of the film end with shots of the graves of the fallen protagonists (the original showing said shots over Gunn's final lines saying their names and "we stopped them (the Nazis) at El Alamein"), the remake only accompanied by the closing soundtrack).Gunn's voice narrating Lawrence Binyon's poem "For The Fallen").
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* DramaticIrony: The well is dry, but the German soldiers don't know that and fight for their lives for it, killing most of the cast in the process. In the very end, one of their mortar shells hits the well and breaks it to the aquifer, filling it with water. Should Gunn and Bates die, the Germans [[NearVillainVictory would actually have won]] and replenish their water supply.
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* HeadgearHeadstone: [[spoiler: The very final shot of the movie, with wind putting the helmets and officer hats into motion]]. Unlike typical use of this trope, this is an upbeat, triumphant moment, with music swelling in the background to celebrate the victory. The 1995 remake changed the tone of the scene to far more somber, with Gunn having [[WasItReallyWorthIt to reasure himself that indeed, it was worth it]].
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* WorthyOpponent: Notably, the film is much more sympathetic to [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly the Italian Giuseppe]] than [[ThoseWackyNazis the Germans.]] (Quite possibly because by the release of the film, Italy had surrendered.)
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* WorthyOpponent: Notably, the film is much more sympathetic to [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly the Italian Giuseppe]] than [[ThoseWackyNazis the Germans.]] (Quite possibly because by the November '43 release of the film, Italy had surrendered.surrendered and switched sides, and the Allied propaganda machine had to immediately start rehabilitating the Italian image for the push on the German puppet state Salò Republic holdouts.)
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* ICallItVera: ''Lulubelle'', the tank.
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* ICallItVera: ''Lulubelle'', the tank. They also [[MachineWorship like to treat her like a (very temperamental) lady]].
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Three American tankers, a British Medical Corps captain, his four Commonwealth officers (including an Anglo-Irish and a South African), a Sudanese Sergeant Major and their Italian and German prisoners, all stuck together at an oasis.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Three American tankers, a British Medical Corps captain, his four Commonwealth officers troops (including an Anglo-Irish and a South African), a Sudanese Sergeant Major and their Italian and German prisoners, all stuck together at an oasis.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: There were indeed American advisors -- with M3 Lees -- present in North Africa before Operation Torch.
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The battle was Gazala, Tobruk falling was a small part of it. And their were several battles around Tobruk
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only Gunn and Bates (and Gunn is the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer left)]] survive TheSiege of Bir Acroma, but they manage to capture all of the surviving Nazis of Von Falken's group and hand them over to a rescuing patrol led there by Waco, and after the DownerBeginning of the Battle of Tobruk, the news that the Allies defeated the Afrika Korps at the First Battle of El Alamein give them hope.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only Gunn and Bates (and Gunn is the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer left)]] survive TheSiege of Bir Acroma, but they manage to capture all of the surviving Nazis of Von Falken's group and hand them over to a rescuing patrol led there by Waco, and after the DownerBeginning of the Battle of Tobruk, Gazala, the news that the Allies defeated the Afrika Korps at the First Battle of El Alamein give them hope.
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* DownerBeginning: The Allies losing the Battle of Tobruk, which forces Gunn and his tank crew (and later the survivors of an Allied field hospital) to run away across the Libyan desert and hope to hell that they can find more Allies to regroup with.
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* DownerBeginning: The Allies losing the Battle of Tobruk, Gazala, which forces Gunn and his tank crew (and later the survivors of an Allied field hospital) to run away across the Libyan desert and hope to hell that they can find more Allies to regroup with.
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* IronicEchoCut: The 1995 remake starts with a documentary reel that showcases the construction of the Lee tanks and the narrator talking about how with tanks like these the Allies will definitely defeat the Axis. Cut to the Battle of Tobruk and the crew of "Lulubelle" scrambling to scavenge stuff to make the tank run so that can use her to escape from the Nazis' curb-stomping.
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* IronicEchoCut: The 1995 remake starts with a documentary reel that showcases the construction of the Lee tanks and the narrator talking about how with tanks like these the Allies will definitely defeat the Axis. Cut to the Battle of Tobruk Gazala and the crew of "Lulubelle" scrambling to scavenge stuff to make the tank run so that can use her to escape from the Nazis' curb-stomping.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Battle of Tobruk was a curb-stomp in favor of the Nazis, forcing all of the Allied members of the cast to retreat and venture through the desert in the hopes that they will find more Allies to regroup with.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Battle of Tobruk Gazala was a curb-stomp in favor of the Nazis, forcing all of the Allied members of the cast to retreat and venture through the desert in the hopes that they will find more Allies to regroup with.
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* IronicEchoCut: The 1995 remake starts with a documentary reel that showcases the construction of the Lee tanks and the narrator talking about how with tanks like these the Allies will definitely defeat the Axis. Cut to the Battle of Tobruk and the crew of "Lulubelle" scrambling to scavenge stuff to make the tank run so that can use her to escape from the Nazis' curb-stomping.
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* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Gunn's big LineInTheSand speech, convincing the other Allied soldiers to make a stand in Bir Acroma in the hopes that it prevents other Allies further south from being flanked, has him mention that this is a sacrifice that nobody will probably ever know about. [[spoiler:Subverted because Waco manages to find reinforcements when he's told to go BringNewsBack and thus he, Gunn and Bates survive to tell the tale.]]
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* BigEater: Implied by Frenchie when he talks with great joy about the big feasts he had in his home town with the cheese they made -- although it becomes a hard-core MoodDissonance when he then goes on to explain that the Nazis arrived one day and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem killed all the cows and many random townspeople in retaliation for some of them (including Frenchie) being Resistance members.]]
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* DueToTheDead: Both the original and remake versions of the film end with shots of the graves of the fallen protagonists (the original showing said shots over Gunn's final lines saying their names and "we stopped them (the Nazis) at El Alamein"), the remake only accompanied by the closing soundtrack).
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* DesertWarfare: This film happens smack in the middle of the Sahara Campaign of WorldWarII, with all of the mess that this involves. Notably, it is constantly said and shown that both sides are left to whatever mercies the desert will feel like giving them (which aren't many).
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only Gunn and Bates (and Gunn is the highest-ranking officer left)]] survive TheSiege of Bir Acroma, but they manage to capture all of the surviving Nazis of Von Falken's group and hand them over to a rescuing patrol led there by Waco, and after the DownerBeginning of the Battle of Tobruk, the news that the Allies defeated the Afrika Korps at the First Battle of El Alamein give them hope.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only Gunn and Bates (and Gunn is the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer left)]] survive TheSiege of Bir Acroma, but they manage to capture all of the surviving Nazis of Von Falken's group and hand them over to a rescuing patrol led there by Waco, and after the DownerBeginning of the Battle of Tobruk, the news that the Allies defeated the Afrika Korps at the First Battle of El Alamein give them hope.
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* CooperationGambit: Gunn first offers "water for food", so that both parties can then go on their way resupplied. Then he offers "water for guns" to stop the Germans advancing on the retreating allies. Von Falken won't consider either. [[spoiler: After his death, his men are so thirsty their attempt at a final charge turns into a stampede for the well and they gladly throw down their guns.]]
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* CooperationGambit: Gunn first offers "water for food", so that both parties can then go on their way resupplied. Then he offers "water for guns" to stop the Germans advancing on the retreating allies. Von Falken won't consider either. [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After his death, his men are so thirsty their attempt at a final charge turns into a stampede for the well and they gladly throw down their guns.]]
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:One of the artillery strikes the Nazis fire during the final battle hits the well head-on, releasing water freely. This is the only thing that saves Gunn and Bates (the only Allies still standing by then) from getting killed by the Nazis, that turn their charge to try to get into close quarters into a mad stampede for the fresh water, dropping all of their guns as they go.]]
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* ChromosomeCasting: There are no women in this film. Justified because of it occurring on a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII frontline.
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* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: The Battle of Tobruk was a curb-stomp in favor of the Nazis, forcing all of the Allied members of the cast to retreat and venture through the desert in the hopes that they will find more Allies to regroup with.
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* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Battle of Tobruk was a curb-stomp in favor of the Nazis, forcing all of the Allied members of the cast to retreat and venture through the desert in the hopes that they will find more Allies to regroup with.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Giuseppe, an Italian who doesn't like Germans, [[spoiler: gives his life warning Joe that von Schletow has escaped.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Giuseppe, an Italian who doesn't like Germans, [[spoiler: gives [[spoiler:gives his life warning Joe that von Schletow has escaped.]]escaped. He also offers to help fixing Lulubelle when her engine malfunctions on the road to Bir Acroma (and when the others decline because they think he will try to sabotage the tank, he points out that Lulubelle is the only way ''he'' can get out of the desert alive, as well.)]]
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