Raiders of the Desert
Raiders of the Desert
| 17 July 1941 (USA)
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Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fighting in a brutal civil war

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Stellead

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Helloturia

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

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Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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Lela

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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mark.waltz

If this was "Like Sands in the hour glass, so is the waste of your time?" Not really, but it's silly, harmless fun that has to be seen to be believed. Handsome Richard Arlen and lovable fat man Andy Devine stow away aboard a boat and end up in the middle of the desert "where all the sand ends up after Bob Hope cleans his spinach." I never quite got that gag in "Road to Morocco", but it makes a heck of a lot more sense than the point of this pre- war expose of stereotypical silliness that also co-stars Maria Montez in a real do nothing part.The actual female lead is Linda Hayes, moving to an American built city in the middle of nowhere that a desert sheik (Turban Bey) wants to take control of through force. Anyone who can throw a knife into a wooden door and pull it out as if it was only stuck in a brick of cheese (not wood) deserves a medal. Devine becomes a bit too much to take after a while, especially when he starts singing. Ancient proverbs add to the fun as Devine continues to make a fool of himself is a perfect comeuppance for his well meaning obnoxiousness. Grateful that it's under an hour, over and out.

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