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633:, but added: 'We didn't know what Method Acting was, we just called it 'getting on with it'." Syms said that during the scene where the ambulance rolls backwards down the hill narrowly avoiding her, the actors assumed there would be a hawser to stop the vehicle if anything went wrong, but there was not. The actress said she was "pretty sure" Mills, Quayle and Andrews angrily upbraided director J. Lee Thompson for this risky approach. She added: "He liked to push actors a bit". The quicksand sequence was filmed in an ice cold artificial bog in an English studio (some scenes were shot at 355: 42: 637:) and was "very tough" on Quayle and Mills. Syms said the producers got a good deal out of her for "£30 a week", adding: "But I made a lot more when they turned it into an advert for Carlsberg". She said there are "no false heroics in it" and that she had been told by desert war veterans it is a good picture of soldiers in that theatre of war, adding: "I am proud of it". 400:
and submerges his pack, though not before Anson and Murdoch see that it contains a radio set. They drag him to safety. While he recovers, they realise he is probably a German spy but decide not to confront him. During the final leg of the journey Katy must be hand-cranked in reverse up a sand dune
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Continuing their drive, the party discuss their conviction that van der Poel is a spy and decide that they do not want to see him shot. When they reach Alexandria, Anson delivers everyone's papers except van der Poel'snto the Military Police check point and (off-screen) reports to the MP's senior
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The final scene, in which Mills's character finally gets his glass of lager, was used in the 1980s in beer advertisements on television. The scene was reportedly filmed some weeks after the rest of the film, at Elstree. Real lager had to be used to "look right", and Mills had to drink numerous
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Sylvia Syms (Sister Murdoch) said in a 2011 interview about the film that conditions during the desert shoot were so difficult it felt like they were actually in the situation the film portrays. She said: "You may find this hard to believe, but there was very little acting. It was horrible. We
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simply lifted the segment in which Mills contemplates the freshly poured lager in the clearly Carlsberg-branded glass, before downing it in one go and declaring, "Worth waiting for!" This was followed by a variation in the usual Carlsberg tagline: "Still probably the best lager in the world."
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officer, Captain van der Poel, who carries a large pack, to which he seems very attached. After the South African shows Anson two bottles of gin in his backpack, van der Poel persuades Anson to let him join their drive to the safety of the British lines in Alexandria.
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was released in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2018. A restored region B/2 version was previously released on 11 September 2011. In March 2020, the film was released on Blu-ray in region A/1 (North America) by Film Movement Classics in a five-film set called
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officer arrives to arrest van der Poel. Anson orders him to wait until the time previously agreed. Having become friends with van der Poel and indebted to him for saving the group's lives, Anson tells him that if he gives his real name he will be treated as a
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The screenplay contains multiple key changes from the novel, including making Anson rather than Pugh the protagonist. ABPC bought the rights and assigned T. J. Morison to collaborate on a treatment with Landon under the supervision of Walter Mycroft.
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I cannot recommend J. Lee Thompson's Ice Cold in Alex highly enough. It is a very entertaining, beautiful film, which has been recently restored and now released on Blu-ray. ... VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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was chosen because they could never have been seen to be drinking a German lager, since the United Kingdom and Germany are at war during the film. The beer referred to in the original novel is
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The party then make their way to a bar and Anson orders a cold beer, which he consumes with relish. But before they have drunk their first round a
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The film was one of the twelve most popular at the British box office in 1958 (that list included several other war related movies –
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Well-handled psychological drama of British ambulance officer, two nurses, and a German soldier brought together in African desert.
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officer that "van der Poel" is a German soldier whom they met lost in the desert and has surrendered to them under his
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Although some sources claim that music was kept to a minimum, there is in fact a great deal of dramatic underscoring.
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Publicity poster for the North American release of the film. The ambulance, Katy, has become stuck in the sand.
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A moving account of a group of strangers surviving the odds brings out one of John Mills' best performances.
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This pack becomes the focus of suspicion. Pugh, already troubled by van der Poel's lack of knowledge of the
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Pils lager. Each advertisement mixed original footage from a different film (another example was
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Scenes from the film were used in a late-1980s' television advertising campaign for the German
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ambulance nicknamed Katy. The quartet decide to drive across the desert back to British lines.
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described the book as "an excellent escape story played out in the best Hitchcock manner."
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A 22-minute interview with Sylvia Syms was first published in the 2015 DVD release. See
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There were a number of British films being shot in Africa around this time, including
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These vehicles were commonly known as Katys or Katies during their wartime service.
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glasses full until the shots were finished, and was "a little 'heady'" by the end.
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and finishing with the slogan: "A Holsten Pils Production". In retaliation, rival
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BRITAIN'S MOVIE SCENE: J. Arthur Rank Approves Common Market- By STEPHEN WATTS.
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Diana Murdoch and Sister Denise Norton, become separated from the others in an
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in 'Alex'". Van der Poel, who claims to have learned German while working in
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Film And Television in Education: An Aesthetic Approach to the Moving Image
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called "The Road to Alex", which was the main theme, and a "Romance".
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listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.
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rather than as a spy (which would mean execution by firing squad).
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those people". She said that today people would probably call it
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Three Men And a Girl: Three Men And a Girl By HERBERT MITGANG.
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Twice the group encounters motorised elements of the advancing
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as 64 minutes. Later reviews indicate a length of 79 minutes.
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En route the group encounters various obstacles, including a
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The film is arguably the best known credit for Sylvia Syms.
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Williams, Melanie (2009). "A Girl Alone in a man's World:
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Billings, Josh (18 December 1958). "Others in the Money".
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The producers had intended to shoot the location work for
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in Egypt, but they had to switch to Libya because of the
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and van der Poel's strength is again crucial to success.
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Index

Ice-Cold in Alex

J. Lee Thompson
Christopher Landon
John Mills
Sylvia Syms
Anthony Quayle
Harry Andrews
Gilbert Taylor
Richard Best
Leighton Lucas
Associated British Picture Corporation
20th Century Fox
Western Desert campaign
World War II
Christopher Landon
J. Lee Thompson
John Mills
8th Berlin International Film Festival
RASC
Motor Ambulance Company
Tobruk
battle fatigue
alcoholism
Siege of Tobruk
Afrika Korps
Alexandria
MSM
Sister
Austin K2/Y

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