Lion of the Desert

“He was a man of honor in a war without any.”

Italy has taken Libya on paper, but the desert keeps swallowing its columns, and one aging Bedouin teacher is the reason. Omar al-Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) leads a guerrilla war against Mussolini's occupation, and Mussolini (Rod Steiger) sends General Graziani (Oliver Reed) to end it by any means. Moustapha Akkad gives the old man little but his horse, his tribe and a stubborn patience that Graziani cannot bargain with.