Sahara
Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Released
- 1983
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Details
Release year: 1983
Storyline
Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.
Top credits
Brooke Shields — Dale Gordon
Lambert Wilson — Sheikh Ahmed al Jaffar
John Rhys-Davies — Ibrahim Rasoul
Horst Buchholz — Heinrich von Glessing
Did you know
• MGM was the one who invested and put up all of the money for this movie's advertising and post-production. This was also the last The Cannon Group, Inc. movie with which they were involved, calling it "Dry as the Sahara desert...it was awful."
• British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son went missing while rallying through the Sahara around this time, which gave this movie some much needed publicity.
• Early in filming, producer Menahem Golan said to numerous people, that he believed that Brooke Shields would win an Oscar for her role.
See all trivia →Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $1,402,962
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $550,848 (1984-03-04)
User reviews
Romantic and dreamy
Surprisingly not as bad as the critics tolds us back in the 80's
Cheesy, but I couldn't turn the channel
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
