Station Six-Sahara

Station Six-Sahara is a 1962 British-West German international co-production drama film directed by Seth Holt and starring Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck and Ian Bannen. It is a remake of the 1938 film S.O.S. Sahara, which had been based on a play by Jean Martet.[1]

Station Six-Sahara
U.S. theatrical poster
Directed bySeth Holt
Produced byVictor Lyndon
Screenplay by
Based onMen Without a Past
by Jean Martet
Starring
Music byRon Grainer
CinematographyGerald Gibbs
Edited byAlastair McIntyre
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion-Columbia Distributors
Release date
9 December 1962
Running time
101 minutes
Country
  • United Kingdom
  • West Germany
LanguageEnglish

Premise

When an attractive young woman arrives at an isolated oil station in the Sahara Desert, she provokes tension with and amongst the employees.

Cast

Production

The film was part of an ambitious plan by the German production firm CCC Films to begin making films in London, which ended after only two releases.[2]

Seth Holt said he was given the project by Gene Gutowski saying "It was a sort of dirty film really but there was something in it that was quite interesting. Then I learnt by accident that Bryan Forbes had originally brought this subject to CCC films's attention and had promised in the little writing in the contract to do a stint at the end. He did a rewrite in four days. It wasn't perfect but it was a lot better than what I had in the first instance."[3]

It was shot mostly in London at Shepperton Studios with some location work in Libya. As a female in Libya, Baker's movements were heavily restricted.[4]

Reception

The film was reasonably successful on its release in both Britain and Germany.[5]

Critical reception

Contemporary reviewers The Times commented that "for once in a British film some real erotic tension is palpable on the screen", while Dilys Powell described the film as "true cinema".[6]

The film was greatly admired by Martin Scorsese.[7]

References
  1. Bergelder p.128
  2. Bergfelder p.128
  3. Gough-Yates, Kevin (November–December 1969). "Seth Holt interview". Screen. Vol. 10 no. 6. p. 13.
  4. Scheuer, Philip K. (7 June 1962). "Gordon Guides Kirk in 'Three on Match': Nichols-May Ad-Libs Out; the Perils of Carroll Baker". Los Angeles Times. p. C9.
  5. Bergfelder p.129
  6. "BFI – Sight & Sound – Lost and found: Station Six Sahara". Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  7. "Lost and found: Station Six Sahara" BFI 10 Feb 2012, accessed 16 Oct 2014

Bibliography
  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.


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