This is a fantastic film indeed.
What other films are similar to "The Steel Lady".
I can name a few: Flight of the Phoenix, Sands of the Kalahari and Dirkie - Lost in the Desert.
I love these desert adventure survival films. Great way to relax and escape to another world. So help us out here...........
"Dead things go down stream mother....Life goes up stream!!!!"
16 year old Reese Witherspoon starred in "A Far Off Place", also set in the Kalahari. She and a teenage boy escape by crossing the desert after poachers murdered their parents.
shareAnother one set in the African savanna in an era when the Great White Hunter went on safari is "The Naked Prey" (1966), starring and directed by Cornel Wilde.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060736/
One more desert survival film is "Legend of the Lost", set in the Sahara north of Timbuktu. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050629/
Five Came Back (1939) has a somewhat similar plot, is set in a South American jungle, concerns a plane that needs fixing rather than a tank that's discovered in the sand; but otherwise, with its small cast, the lurking, mostly unseen menace, it tells a similar story.
The Lost Patrol (1934), directed by John Ford, set during World War I, is also about a small group of men and an elusive enemy, though its story is different. Lots of sand, though, and some excellent acting. Victor McLaglen stars, and Boris Karloff is,--believe it or not--a barrel of fun playing a religious fanatic who goes mad.
I'm back again. What more can you ask for than a WWII movie from 1943 starring Humphrey Bogart that features a tank. Bogart and his motley crew hold off a larger force of Germans in the Libyan desert at a well that the Germans need to capture to keep from dying from thirst. The movie's name is Sahara.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036323/reference
I saw this movie on September 19, 2016, as part of an apparent set of "directed by E.A. Dupont" films, starting with "The Scarf" and ending with "The Steel Lady." After some thought, the plot resembles "Sahara" (1943) with a number of changes.
First, this is a peacetime movie with Rod Cameron doing his best "Sgt. Joe Gunn"/Humphrey Bogart, leading an aerial oil company survey team. Second, the alcoholic treasure hunter does his treacherous best to stand in for the "Luftwaffe P.O.W." Third, the band of booty-seeking Tuaregs are substitutes for the Afrika Corps Panzer company. Fourth, there's even a "French Guide" that does double duty as the "native soldier and the Italian P.O.W." For those calling for a remake, THIS IS A REMAKE of "Sahara" (1943). As with "Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars," it pays to copy a successful film.;)