Can anyone shed some light on this dim memory?

[Douglas Wilkinson]

Sometime around 1980/81, I snuck into a theatre with a friend and watched a very adult war film. I can recall only two scenes. One involved tanks (British, I think) rolling across a desert and crushing opponents (Arab resistance fighters, I believe) as they lay in ambush just under the sand. I vividly recall blood flying out of their mouths. The other scene involved the low-tech resistance fighters hurling bottle of lit petrol from a cliff onto a column of tanks and artillery.

 

Any ideas? I was six or seven. I should have been watching Mr. Mom or something.

 

Thanks.

 

dw

[chris dye]

Sometime around 1980/81, I snuck into a theatre with a friend and watched a very adult war film. I can recall only two scenes. One involved tanks (British, I think) rolling across a desert and crushing opponents (Arab resistance fighters, I believe) as they lay in ambush just under the sand. I vividly recall blood flying out of their mouths. The other scene involved the low-tech resistance fighters hurling bottle of lit petrol from a cliff onto a column of tanks and artillery.

 

Any ideas? I was six or seven. I should have been watching Mr. Mom or something.

 

Thanks.

 

dw

 

Perhaps it was Lion of the Desert?

[Tim O'Connor]

I can't think of that one but a later 80s or 90s movie "Tank" dir. by Kevin Reynolds about the Russians

in Afghanistan is an amazing film, well worth watching, that might jar your memory.

[Douglas Wilkinson]

YES!! LION OF THE DESERT!! THAT'S IT!! THANK-YOU!!

[Delorme Jean-Marie]

i saw this last one tim, a lost russian tank in afganistan it was a fantastic war movie.....