This desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an
Italian invasion in 1929. Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, who
organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops
under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are trying to gain
a foothold on Libyan soil under direct orders from the Italian dictator
Mussolini (Rod Steiger). With the persistence of Mukhtar, the Libyans,
battling the tanks and guns of the Italian army with their Bedouin
troops on horseback, managed to hold off y the Italians for twenty
years, until Mukhtar was finally captured and executed.
When was the invasion?
1929