"In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II."
Humphrey Bogart
as Sgt. Joe Gunn
Bruce Bennett
as Waco Hoyt
J. Carrol Naish
as Giuseppe
Lloyd Bridges
as Fred Clarkson
Rex Ingram
as Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Richard Aherne
as Capt. Jason Halliday
Dan Duryea
as Jimmy Doyle
Carl Harbord
as Marty Williams
Patrick O'Moore
as Osmond 'Ozzie' Bates
Louis Mercier
as Jean Leroux - 'Frenchie'
Guy Kingsford
as Peter Stegman
Kurt Kreuger
as Capt. von Schletow
John Wengraf
as Maj. von Falken
Louis Adlon
as Soldier (uncredited)
Niels Bagge
as German Private (uncredited)
Walter Bonn
Frederic Brunn
Leslie Denison
as British Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Dyne
Carl Ekberg
as Sniper (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Leyland Hodgson
as British Officer (uncredited)
Frank Lackteen
as Sheik Ali (uncredited)
Peter Lawford
Nelson Leigh
Anthony Marsh
John Meredith
George N. Neise
as British Sergeant (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
as German Captain (uncredited)
Henry Rowland
as Captured German Private (uncredited)
John Royce
Hans Schumm
as Sgt. Krause (uncredited)
Robert R. Stephenson
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Walter Thiele
Frederick Worlock
as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Vilmos Gyimes
as Sergeant (uncredited)
Zoltan Korda
Director
Screenplay
John Howard Lawson
James O'Hanlon
Adaptation
Philip MacDonald
Story
Rudolph Maté
Director of Photography
Charles Nelson
Editor
Lionel Banks
Art Direction
William Kiernan
Set Decoration
Abby Berlin
Assistant Director
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Sidney Buchman
Additional Writing
Harry Joe Brown
Producer
Henry Pringle
Makeup Artist
Eugène Lourié
Assistant Art Director
Lodge Cunningham
Sound Engineer
Homer Plannette
Gaffer
Ned Scott
Still Photographer
Eugene Zador
Orchestrator