''Desert Raiders'' (Italian: ''Il dominatore del deserto'') is a 1964 Italian adventure film directed by

Tanio Boccia Camillo Tanio Boccia (15 June 1911 – 12 March 1982), was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s. From 1960 onwards, he was regularly credited as Amerigo Anton. Career Born in Potenza, Basilic ...

and starring Kirk Morris, Rosalba Neri and

Hélène Chanel Hélène Chanel (born Hélène Stoliaroff; 12 June 1941 in Deauville, Calvados, France) is a French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of sword and sandal, Eurospy and ...

. It was one of a large number of

peplum film Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget H ...

s made during the era. The story consists of a hero saves a beautiful young princess from a forced marriage to an evil villain.

Cast

* Kirk Morris as Nadir * Rosalba Neri as Fátima *

as Zaira * Paul Muller as Yussuf *

Aldo Bufi Landi Aldo Bufi Landi (7 April 1923 – 2 February 2016) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 2013. Selected filmography * '' Malaspina'' (1947) * '' Madunnella'' (1948) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) * ''L ...

as Salad *

Ugo Sasso Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Turin, in the early 1930s Sasso moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografi ...

as Omar * Furio Meniconi as El Krim * Rinaldo Zamperla * Geneviève Audry as Shireen *

Edda Ferronao Edda Ferronao is an Italian former stage, film and television actress.Bayman p. 241 Selected filmography * ''March's Child'' (1957) * '' Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics'' (1958) * ''The Conqueror of the Orient'' (1960) * ''Fountain of Trevi' ...

* Franco Pechini * Nadir Moretti as Ibrahim * Rina Mascetti * Luigi Scavran *

Wladimiro Tuicovich Wladimiro may refer to: * Wladimiro Ganzarolli (1932–2010), an Italian operatic bass-baritone * Wladimiro Calarese (1930–2005), an Italian fencer * Wladimiro "Tony" De Tomaso (born 1951), an Italian racing driver * Wladimiro Falcone (born 19 ...

References

Bibliography

* Susanna Buffa. ''Un musicista per il cinema: Carlo Rustichelli, un profilo artistico''. Carocci, 2004.

External links

* 1964 adventure films Italian adventure films 1964 films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Tanio Boccia Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub