ICE COLD IN ALEX

When the first time I saw the name of this film, I thought it might be an adventurous film. Yesterday, I borrowed it from library,and watched it in evening. I have to say, it is worthy to see again. 

The background is World War II. The story was in north Africa, Libyan war zone in the hot Western Desert.

The British ambulance officer (well played by John Mills)escaped the siege in Tobruk and try to save his passengers to safety in Alexandria, where he could get an 'ice cold' glass of beer. His passengers include a nurse, a sergeant-major and a stray South African officer trying to return to his unit.They faced with German forces and the desert.While they coming over the problems, the South African officer tends to be strange. Anson, the sergeant and the nurse found him a German spy. They realized that every time they were in trouble with German patrol,the strange passenger can make it right.(Unbelievable)But they didn't alarm the spy. Instead, officer Anson devised a plan, in which the spy lost his transmitter, and almost died in the swamp. But Anson and the other two saved the spy. Then they had a talk about what to do next. The British officer didn't want to kill the spy due to some reasons.

Next day they were blocked by a sand hill. All of them work together to push the ambulance on to the top by asterning it. But when they almost get on the hill, the woman touched the axis, then the vehicle sliced down to the bottom...(when woman made a big mistake,let's see what men should do?) They push it again. Finally, they reach the Alex. They got the beer. But the spy realized some military police come to him to check his identification. He was in shock,and tried to find way to escape. But the three British saved him, and willing to keep the truth a secret.

It's really a British way of doing.

The spy saved them, and they saved the spy.

I would say this film talks more about Humanness rather than the war than other war films. As a doctor, as a human, he don't kill. That is the point.

The meaning was similar to Monk's thought i.e. to clear away the evil in him, and 

save his good nature.

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