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Sahara (1943, not 2005)
What I thought was a 2005 Matthew McConaughey search for lost gold was, in fact, a 1943 Humphrey Bogart war film. So, now that my expectations were completely blown....not bad. Not epic, and there is reason why this doesn't come up as one of his best or one of the great war films from that era. However, he stayed true to expectations being the gritty, don't give a damn, American leading a mixed group of Brits, Americans, a Frenchman, a Sudanese British, and two prisoners (an Italian and a German) as they set course for the only known water in the area. They get there, have a bit, and are ready to scram from an incoming battalion of several hundred Germans also looking for water. Realizing they may or may not make it home, and that they just bled the well dry, they decided to make a stand and defend the dry hole from the oncoming nazis with the belief that they can hold them off for a few days before the Germans overtake them and discover there is not water - thereby destroying the German moral, and hopefully putting them in too weak of a condition to fight, or to even pursue another water source. No boobs, decent war flick, acceptable use of stereotypes. 5/10.
Casablanca was on Sunday when I got home from the Buc's game...Bogie was a great actor.
Major Strasser(to Rick): What nationality are you?
Bogie: I'm a drunkard!
Epic. He was an original member of the rat pack too.