''A Yank in Libya'' is a 1942 American

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directed by

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and starring

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, Parkyarkarkus and

Joan Woodbury Joan Elmer Woodbury (December 17, 1915 – February 22, 1989) was an American actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s. Early life Woodbury was born in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 1915. Her father was Elmer ...

.Casaregola p.24 The film depicts a planned

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in Libya. An American correspondent and a British intelligence agent are aware of the scheme, and they try to flee from the camp of a pro-British

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who has been targeted for assassination by the conspirators.

Plot

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an

of the Arab tribes in

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. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the

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. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.

Cast

as Herbert Forbes *

as Mike Malone *

as Nancy Brooks * Parkyarkarkus as Benny Sykes *

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as Shiek David * George Lewis as Shiek Ibrahim * William Vaughn as Yussof Streyer *Howard Banks as Phillip Graham *Amarilla Morris as Haditha

References

Bibliography

*Casaregola, Vincent. ''Theaters of War: America’s Perceptions of World War II''. Springer, 2009.

External links

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