6. The Black Tent (1956), dir. Brian Desmond Hurst

[strange_complex]

A couple of years ago I watched and blogged the 1957 lost-in-the-desert adventure Legend of the Lost, mainly because a lot of it was filmed in the ruins of Roman Leptis Magna. In a comment, swisstone recommended this film to me as another very similar example of the same thing - so I added it to my Lovefilm list, and have at last got round to watching it

Comments

[swisstone]

You may be tight about the Libyan government deliberately encouraging tourism - at this point they had not discovered oil, so tourism was one of the few sources of foreign income available.

But I also note that a lot of Hollywood movies in the 1950s are shot in Europe. Roman Holiday was entirely filmed in Italy, and Three Coins in the Fountain has significant location footage shot in Rome. Hitchcock went to London to make Dial M For Murder and The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Monaco for To Catch A Thief. I Was A Male War Bride was shot in France, and Boy On A Dolphin in Greece

[strange_complex]

Yes, I see your point. It would be something that benefited both parties - the host country for getting the exposure, and the film crews for getting the exotic footage they needed to wow their audiences.