Sands of the Desert

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

• John Paddy CarstairsDirector
• John Paddy CarstairsScreenplay

• Charlie DrakeCharlie Sands
• Peter ArneSheikh El Jabez
• Sarah BranchJanet Brown
• Raymond HuntleyBossom
• Rebecca DignamNerima
• Peter IllingSheikh Ibrahim
• Harold KasketAbdulla
• Marne MaitlandAdvisor to Sheikh
• Neil McCarthyHassan
• Derek SydneyMamud
• Alan TilvernMustafa
• Martin BensonSelim