Ice Cold in Alex
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) • Action, Classics, Drama
The year is 1942. Along the barren North African coast where war has turned towns into smoking ruins, Captain Anson (John Mills), a commanding officer in the Royal Army Service Corps, is tired and thirsty. Separated from his unit while evacuating to Alexandria in a military ambulance, he takes on several passengers but soon realizes that one of them may be a German spy. Nominated for four BAFTA Awards and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1958 Berlin International Film Festival.
DIRECTED BY J. LEE THOMPSON
UNITED KINGDOM | 1958 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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