- Set in British-controlled Palestine in the late 1940s, the film's conflict runs between the Jewish underground, an American ship's captain smuggling immigrants ashore, and British soldiers. No Arab character has a part in it.
Sword in the Desert (1949)
film · 1949 film by George Sherman
- Director
- George Sherman
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributor
- Universal Pictures
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genre
- drama film
- Cast
- Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler