Sahara
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Released
- 2005
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, United States
Details
Release year: 2005
Storyline
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
Top credits
Matthew McConaughey — Dirk Pitt
Penélope Cruz — Eva Rojas
Steve Zahn — Al Giordino- Mark Aspinall — Lawyer
Did you know
• The interior of Massarde's toxic waste disposal plant was the factory in Britain where the jet engines for the Concorde were tested.
• Penélope Cruz initially thought she was too young to play a World Health Organization doctor. A real WHO doctor told her that doctors that go to dangerous locations are more likely to be young.
• A full-scale model of the Texas was built for the film. After the 1865 sequence was filmed, it was dismantled and reassembled in Morocco.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $68,671,925
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $18,068,372 (2005-04-10)
User reviews
Best Saturday afternoon, nothing to do movie!
Fun watching
Pure escapism... but what's wrong with that?
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
