Sands of the Desert [246054] Released: 1960-09-08 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 92 mins Popularity: 0.2254 Vote Average: 6.3 Vote Count: 6 Overview: 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 Cast [36] Charlie DrakeCharlie Sands Peter ArneSheikh El Jabez Sarah BranchJanet Brown Raymond HuntleyBossom Rebecca DignamNerima Peter IllingSheikh Ibrahim Harold KasketAbdulla Marne MaitlandAdvisor to Sheik Neil McCarthyHassan Derek SydneyMamud Alan TilvernMustafa Martin BensonSelim Eric PohlmannScrobin Inia Te WiataFahid Paul StassinoPilot Judith FurseYasmin Martin BoddeyMertons Madge BrindleyFat Lady in Bus Robert Brown1st Tourist Charles CarsonPhilpotts Roger DelgadoAbu Nlal Peter Elliott1st Tourist Offi Gamel FarisCustoms Official William KendallBritish Consul Tutte LemkowBus Driver Andreas MalandrinosRashid Lisa Peake1st Handmaiden Michael Peake2nd Tourist Offi Beth RoganAir Hostess Kim Tracy2nd Handmaiden Irene BarrieMinor Role Jim BradyArab Sally DouglasHarem Girl Eddie FrewinArab Driver Mia KaramMinor Role Roy StewartGong Banger at S Trailers