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best movie i've ever seen.

An Exercise In Nonsense

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The Steel Lady's title character refers to an abandoned Panzer tank that four oilmen find when they are forced to land in the North African desert. A diary and fortunately one of them reads German says that the two mummified remains found there are two of the Afrika Korps who went south rather than surrender and they died of thirst and starvation. The four oilmen are Rod Cameron, Richard Erdman, Tab Hunter, and John Dehner. Cameron is the plane's pilot, Dehner and Erdman geologists and Hunter a radio operator. Cameron find the tank in perfect operational order just buried for a decade by the desert sands.The guys are going to need the tank otherwise they would dead meat for the wandering Bedouins. Also in the tank are a fortune in jewels stolen from one Arab sheik that another would like to get a hold of. That tidbit was not in the diary.The Steel Lady is your typical pulp fiction action/adventure saga that was great for the Saturday matinée crowd. Rod Cameron was taking a leave from the B westerns he was turning out and was a good hero for this piece.If you like adventure sagas this film is for you.

Like (most) of the others commenting here, I really loved this flick. We oughta form a fan club! Like some others, I saw it on TV back in the early 60s and it's stuck with me ever since. The guy with the 16mm print and all the other stuff is one lucky dude. I'm checking NetFlix continually for it-- but no go. I wonder if we all hit Turner or Movie Channel with e-mails if they could get it on the air again?? Anyways, I endorse all the comments (but for Mr. Lone Grumpy-Pants) that appear here so far.What I'd like to know (being a bit of a WWII history buff) is just how accurate the tank they used was. So many war movies use USA tanks, etc., from the 50s made to 'look' like the German vehicles (TV's Combat and MOST Hollywood productions suffer for me because of that, with Spielberg's films being the significant exceptions). I saw this movie before I became a student of WWII hardware and so a tank was a tank.But the pictures I still see in my mind now seem to be that the tank was either an authentic or very close mock-up of the Mk III or IV Panzers actually used by the German Afrika Korps. Anyone else recall? I'd love to see the film again just to find out that little tidbit.

I remember seeing this film in the late fifties on TV. When I decided to track it down all I could remember was a group of guys uncover a tank in the desert, manage to get it up and running and blast a few desert nomads. For some reason I also knew Rod Cameron was the star.Being a 16mm film collector I asked around and a fellow in California told me the title when I provided him with as much of the story line as I remembered. Some time later another friend helped me find a VHS copy. Boy did it bring back memories. Since that time with the help of E-bay, I've been able to find a complete set of lobby cards, the press book, the insert, the half sheet, the one sheet, the three sheet and a 16mm print. Its great to able to watch it on an eight foot movie screen. If there's any interest I may be able to get the 16mm print transfered to tape or DVD. I can be contacted at [email protected] Update. I now have The Steel Lady on DVD, very good quality.

I watched it on black and white TV in the late 50s or early 60s in Minnesota. My dad, brother, and I sat glued to our seats munching homemade popcorn during the whole thing.The closest thing I've seen to it lately is: "Flight of the Phoenix". Steel lady was far more believable. The old plane, old tank, and action were great. It was a real rush for a collector of old military stuff and old car nut. There is a shot of an ART-13 radio transmitter in the back of the cockpit before the crash.As to the possibility of getting a tank running after being burried for decades, the Confederate Air Force, and others have flown B-29s and a B-47 out of china lake NWC that had been sitting in the desert just as long. Usually an oil change, gassing up, a fresh battery, and repairing vandalism was all it took to get them back in the air. Most tanks used 28 volt (nominally 24 VDC) batteries, as did the planes. Oil and avgas from the plane would work for the tank. It would not take a rocket scientist to get a tank going in a day or so. Much more credible than the redesign and remanufacture shown in "Flight of the Phoenix". I like both movies, but give the Steel Lady a higher mark for technical correctness.I would surely like to get a copy on tape or DVD to relive a pleasant sunday afternoon of my salad years.Larry Backer