Post by Stingray on Jan 5, 2008 21:13:23 GMT -4
That was a good movie! 
;D
Plot:
Marine Engineer, explorer and former US Navy Seal Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) travels to Mali, to search for what the locals call "The Ship of Death", the lost Civil War ironclad warship CSS Texas that has a mysterious cargo. Pitt and his longtime friend Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) manage to thwart the assassination of Doctor Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a doctor with the United Nations World Health Organization, who is investigating the source of a disease that is wreaking havoc in the area. The cause is a vast amount of industrial waste that is threatening to cause an environmental disaster. It is up to Pitt and his associates at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) to locate the source of the pollution and shut it down, and explore the connection between the deaths and the missing ironclad.
There is another film from 1943 that has the same title, but a different story.
Sahara is a 1943 war film directed by Zoltan Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound, Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) and Best Supporting Actor by J. Carrol Naish for his role as an Italian prisoner.
The script was worked on by John Howard Lawson, who was later part of the Hollywood Ten accused by HUAC of promoting Communist propaganda. The movie was filmed on location in the Imperial County portion of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, near the Salton Sea, using soldiers of the U.S. 4th Armored Division as extras.
The movie has gone on to become something of a cult film, and is considered one of the better at-war movies made during World War II. A television remake starring Jim Belushi in Bogart's role was filmed in 1995.
The film was intended as a propaganda vehicle for morale-building and was not intended to be "historically accurate". As is often noted on film sites, the United States did not provide ground forces for the Western Desert Campaign.
;DPlot:
Marine Engineer, explorer and former US Navy Seal Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) travels to Mali, to search for what the locals call "The Ship of Death", the lost Civil War ironclad warship CSS Texas that has a mysterious cargo. Pitt and his longtime friend Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) manage to thwart the assassination of Doctor Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a doctor with the United Nations World Health Organization, who is investigating the source of a disease that is wreaking havoc in the area. The cause is a vast amount of industrial waste that is threatening to cause an environmental disaster. It is up to Pitt and his associates at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) to locate the source of the pollution and shut it down, and explore the connection between the deaths and the missing ironclad.
There is another film from 1943 that has the same title, but a different story.
Sahara is a 1943 war film directed by Zoltan Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound, Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) and Best Supporting Actor by J. Carrol Naish for his role as an Italian prisoner.
The script was worked on by John Howard Lawson, who was later part of the Hollywood Ten accused by HUAC of promoting Communist propaganda. The movie was filmed on location in the Imperial County portion of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, near the Salton Sea, using soldiers of the U.S. 4th Armored Division as extras.
The movie has gone on to become something of a cult film, and is considered one of the better at-war movies made during World War II. A television remake starring Jim Belushi in Bogart's role was filmed in 1995.
The film was intended as a propaganda vehicle for morale-building and was not intended to be "historically accurate". As is often noted on film sites, the United States did not provide ground forces for the Western Desert Campaign.
