The Queens Bays Tank Regiment assisted in production of the film. In September Mature left England for six weeks of location filming in the Libyan Desert, near Tripoli. In August 1957 Victor Mature signed a two picture contract with Warwick, No Time to Die and The Man Inside. Jeff Chandler turned down the role (and fee of $200,000). Van Johnson, who had just made a film with Young, was a leading contender. In April 1957 Terence Young arrived in Hollywood to find two American leading men for the film. 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 March 1957 Merle Miller was hired to rewrite the script. The working title of this film, No Time to Die, was the title of the British version as well as the Ronald Kemp novel on which, according to a 1955 Los Angeles Times news item, the film was initially to be based. Sy Bartlett was assigned to write the script. No hay tiempo para morir (Tank Force) Daniel Thatcher es un sargento americano que sirve en una compañía acorazada británica en el norte de África. Warwick Productions bought the film rights in 1955 and tried to get Montgomery Clift to star. The film was based on a 1954 novel by Ronald Kemp. Thatcher has a secret and tries to escape at every turn. The three survivors are quickly captured and transported to an Italian-run POW camp. Kendall (Leo Genn), becomes stuck in the sand and the crew bail out too. In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers. The squadron's attached reconnaissance vehicle, commanded by Sgt. David Thatcher (Victor Mature) is hit and he and driver Trooper "Tiger" Noakes (Anthony Newley) bail out. In North Africa during the Second World War, a squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by panzers of their German adversaries.Ī tank commanded by American Sgt.
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