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Lion of the Desert
1981Age guide: 15+
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini…
★ 7.3/10 · 208 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Anthony QuinnOmar al-Mukhtar
Oliver ReedGeneral Rodolfo Graziani
Irene PapasMabrouka
Raf ValloneColonel Diodiece
Rod SteigerBenito Mussolini
John GielgudSharif El Gariani
Andrew KeirSalem
Gastone MoschinMajor Tomelli
Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers
Wuchak: “Braveheart” in the Libyan desert with Quinn, Reed and Steiger After twenty years of failing to remove Bedouin rebels during the Italian colonization… Read full review
CinemaSerf: This is a curious hybrid of a film - it brings together some elements of "Gandhi" (1982) , "Khartoum" (1966) and even "Spartacus"… Read full review