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''The Lebanese Mission'' (also known as ''Châtelaine du Liban, La'') is a 1956 French thriller film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale,
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and
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. Omar Sharif also appeared in one of his earlier film roles. The film starts with two scientists launching an expedition exploring for
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out in the Arabian desert, but they soon find themselves entangled in a web of
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.


See also

* '' The Lady of Lebanon'', a 1926 film based on the same novel * '' The Lady of Lebanon'', a 1934 film based on the same novel


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* * 1956 films Italian adventure thriller films 1950s adventure thriller films 1950s French-language films Films based on works by Pierre Benoit Films directed by Richard Pottier French adventure thriller films Films set in Lebanon Films based on French novels 1950s French films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-thriller-film-stub