![]() When the SS tries to torture Thatcher into confessing, Captain Ritter becomes so disgusted that he helps the men escape and then commits suicide. Kendall takes the sheikh and the SS colonel ( Martin Boddey) hostage, but he Pole initiates a shootout that leaves him wounded and the sheikh and the colonel dead. They steal a truck, which is met by a rival group of Bedouins which warn them of a nearby German panzer division. They capture a tank, but Kendall and the Pole are killed while their tank is disabled. However, a British tank battalion arrives to save them. The German panzers are defeated, and Thatcher and Noakes bury Kendall. The film was initially based on a 1954 novel of the same name by Ronald Kemp, but later received a different script unrelated to the novel with the exception of the title and the setting. Warwick Productions bought the film rights in 1955 and tried to get Montgomery Clift to star. Sy Bartlett was assigned to write the script. In March 1957 Merle Miller was hired to rewrite the script. The script eventually became about five Allied soldiers, two Englishmen, a Pole, an American and an Australian, who escape an Italian POW camp in the Second World War. Īlan Ladd was mentioned as a possibility as star. In April 1957 Terence Young arrived in Hollywood to find two American leading men for the film. Van Johnson, who had just made a film with Young, was a leading contender. Jeff Chandler turned down the role (and fee of $200,000). In August 1957 Victor Mature signed a two-picture contract with Warwick, No Time to Die and The Man Inside. In September, Mature left England for six weeks of location filming in the Libyan Desert, near Tripoli. The Queens Bays Tank Regiment assisted in production of the film. No Time to Die featured authentic war time Cromwell tanks as well as post-war Centurions and Charioteers as both British and German tanks. ![]() ![]() In the opening battle Leo Genn commands an AEC Armoured Car and wears the beret of the Cherry Pickers. Sean Kelly was a South African actor who had been signed by Warwick to a seven-year contract. It was the last in a seven-picture commitment between Warwick and Columbia. Kinematograph Weekly listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958. When the film was initially released in the United States, it was 20 minutes shorter than the version released in the United Kingdom. The 25th James Bond film, 2021's No Time to Die, shares a title with this film, which was directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. ^ "Display Ad 45 - No Title" The Observer : 9."Cubby" Broccoli, and written by Richard Maibaum, the original director, producer and writer of the James Bond films. REVIEWED BY GORDON STEWART This school was tough". Retrieved 8 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia. " 'No Time to Die' Bought for Clift Heflin Will Star in 'Distant Paths' ". "REPUBLIC TO FILM SERLING TV PLAY: Studio Acquires 'Taps on a Bugle,' Third Work Sold by Author of 'Patterns' ". ^ a b "MOVIELAND EVENTS: Mature, Genn Will Migrate to Desert"." 'No Time to Die' Likely for Ladd Western Film Proposed for Brando". " 'No Time to Die' Bids for Americans Cooper Classic Soon to Start".
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