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Overall Rank: 23911
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 4
Theatrical Release Date: 08/03/1949
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 04/05/2011
Language: English
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Corinne Calvet, Sam Jaffe
Plot: A guide who mistakenly trespassed on diamond company land and discovered a
rich lode keeps the secret of its location, even after being nearly beat
to death. Two years later he is bound to harvest the lode for himself, but
the company has a new plan - a seductive woman will get the information
out of him. -- Chris Kavan
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3.5/4
Basically "Casablanca"...except with diamonds!
Indyfreak - wrote on 12/10/2014
An irresistibly charming "Casablanca" redux which goes as far as reining in Claude Rains, Paul Henried, and Peter Lorre as their corresponding characters in that film. However, Paul Henried gets to play two roles in one: the jilted lover and the spiteful Nazi. Granted, he's not actually a Nazi nor are there any in "Rope of Sand" but he's playing a uniformed German that has foot-soldiers and drives armored vehicles in the desert in a 1940s movie so yea, he's a Nazi in my book. The script is nearly identical to that of "Casablanca" which only differs in regard to its Macguffin (in here, it's a cache of diamonds). Despite its slavish devotion to the formula devised by that 1942 classic, "Rope of Sand" is a highly entertaining blend of safari intrigue and postwar film-noir.
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