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.

• Columbia Pictures
• Humphrey Bogart
• Bruce Bennett
• J. Carrol Naish
• Lloyd Bridges
• Rex Ingram
• Richard Aherne
• Dan Duryea
• Carl Harbord