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English-language film shot largely in Libya" and which "plays like something of a prophecy – six years before the epochal on-location
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Mabrouka, has a blond son of an age such that his brother could be the father. He confronts the chief, only to find the girl in question is his daughter. Sir
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tribe and marries the sheik's daughter. After the war his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, learns that he may be alive in Libya – prompting him to set out and search for him.
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England rather than Sir Charles. Sir Charles discusses this with his nephew, but the boy decides to remain with the tribe, and he burns the page.
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