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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = No Time to Die<br />
| image = No Time to Die, 1958 quad poster.jpg<br />
| image_size = <br />
| caption = British release quad [[film poster]]<br />
| director = [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]<br />
| producer = [[Irving Allen]]<br />[[Albert Broccoli]]<br />''associate''<br />Phil C. Samuel<br />
| writer = [[Richard Maibaum]]<br />Terence Young<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''No Time to Die'' {{small|(1954 novel)}}|Ronald Kemp}}<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Victor Mature]]<br />[[Leo Genn]]<br />[[Bonar Colleano]]<br />[[Anthony Newley]]<br />
| music = [[Kenneth V. Jones]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Ted Moore]]<br />
| editing = Bert Rule<br />
| studio = [[Warwick Films]]<br />
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br />
| released = August 1958<br />
| runtime = 86 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''No Time to Die''''' is a 1958 British [[war film]] about an American sergeant in the British Army during the Second World War. In the US, the film was renamed '''''Tank Force!'''''.<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
In [[Italian Libya]] during the [[North African campaign]] of the [[World War II|Second World War]], a [[Royal Armoured Corps]] squadron of [[Royal Tank Regiment|British tanks]] is destroyed in battle by German [[Afrika Korps]] [[panzer]]s. A tank commanded by American Sgt. David Thatcher ([[Victor Mature]]) is hit and he and driver Trooper "Tiger" Noakes ([[Anthony Newley]]) bail out. The squadron's attached [[11th Hussars|reconnaissance vehicle]], commanded by Sgt. Kendall ([[Leo Genn]]), becomes stuck in the sand and the crew bail out too. The three survivors are quickly captured and transported to an [[Royal Italian Army|Italian]] [[Prisoner-of-war camp|POW camp]] run by [[German Army]] Captain Ritter ([[Alfred Burke]]).<br />
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Unbeknownst to the Axis prison guards, Thatcher had previously tried to assassinate [[Joseph Goebbels]] in revenge for the killing of his Jewish wife and tries to escape at every turn before the Nazis discover his secret. The British commander Sgt. Kendall arranges an escape of Thatcher, Noakes, Bartlett (Sean Kelly), and a Polish prisoner ([[Bonar Colleano]]) in an ambulance before the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' can detain Thatcher, and the Pole kills the German mole Johnson (Kenneth Fortescue). They escape through the [[Libyan Desert]] in [[Dust storm|sandstorms]], briefly taking shelter at the nightclub of Thatcher's friend Carola ([[Luciana Paluzzi]]) in Italian [[Benghazi]] before she is accidentally shot by the Italian officer Alberto ([[Robert Rietti]]).<br />
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Over the course of the trip the Pole grows increasingly homicidal, indiscriminately killing two German officers the group captures. After Kendall vows to court-martial the Pole when they return home, he allows a [[Bedouin]] tribe led by a sheikh ([[Maxwell Shaw]]) loyal to the SS to kill Bartlett and capture the surviving men. When the SS tries to torture Thatcher into confessing, Captain Ritter becomes so disgusted that he helps the men escape and then commits suicide. Kendall takes the sheikh and the SS colonel ([[Martin Boddey]]) hostage, but he Pole initiates a shootout that leaves him wounded and the sheikh and the colonel dead. They steal a truck, which is met by a rival group of Bedouins which warn them of a nearby German panzer division. They capture a tank, but Kendall and the Pole are killed while their tank is disabled. However, a British tank battalion arrives to save them. The German panzers are defeated, and Thatcher and Noakes bury Kendall.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* [[Victor Mature]] as Sgt. David Thatcher<br />
* [[Leo Genn]] as Sgt. Kendall<br />
* [[Anthony Newley]] as Noakes<br />
* [[Bonar Colleano]] as the Pole<br />
* [[Luciana Paluzzi]] as Carola<br />
* Sean Kelly as Bartlett<br />
* Kenneth Fortescue as Johnson<br />
* [[Anne Aubrey]] as Italian girl<br />
* [[George Coulouris]] as Camp commandant<br />
* [[Alfred Burke]] as Captain Ritter<br />
* [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]] as Maj. Fred Patterson<br />
* [[Maxwell Shaw]] as the Sheikh<br />
* [[Alan Tilvern]] as Silverio<br />
* [[George Pravda]] as German Sgt.<br />
* [[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]] as 1st British soldier<br />
* [[Kenneth Cope]] as 2nd British soldier<br />
* [[Robert Rietti]] as Alberto<br />
* [[Martin Boddey]] as Gestapo Colonel<br />
* [[Richard Marner]] as German colonel<br />
* Peter Elliott as Italian officer<br />
* Julian Sherrier as 2nd Italian officer<br />
* Robert Bruce as Italian driver<br />
* [[Bob Simmons (stunt man)|Bob Simmons]] as Mustapha<br />
* [[Andreas Malandrinos]] as Italian cook<br />
* Ernst Walder as German Corporal<br />
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== Production ==<br />
The film was initially based on a 1954 novel of the same name by Ronald Kemp, but later received a different script unrelated to the novel with the exception of the title and the setting.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Tank Force |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52758-TANK-FORCE?sid=85fb525b-5937-48ad-9b67-bcd41ca611e6&sr=2.95455&cp=1&pos=0 |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref><ref>"Display Ad 45 -- No Title" ''The Observer'' [London] 17 Oct 1954: 9.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71673458 |title=NOVELS.. REVIEWED BY GORDON STEWART This school was tough |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne|date=13 August 1955 |access-date=8 July 2016 |page=40 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Warwick Productions bought the film rights in 1955 and tried to get [[Montgomery Clift]] to star.<ref>{{Cite news|title='No Time to Die' Bought for Clift; Heflin Will Star in 'Distant Paths'|author=Schallert, Edwin|date=July 16, 1955|work=Los Angeles Times|page=15}}</ref> [[Sy Bartlett]] was assigned to write the script.<ref>{{Cite news|title=REPUBLIC TO FILM SERLING TV PLAY: Studio Acquires 'Taps on a Bugle,' Third Work Sold by Author of 'Patterns' |author=THOMAS M. PRYOR|date=July 16, 1955|work=New York Times|page=12}}</ref><br />
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In March 1957 Merle Miller was hired to rewrite the script.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Of Local Origin|date=Mar 13, 1957|work=New York Times|page=25}}</ref> Then [[Richard Maibaum]] did a draft. The script eventually became about five Allied soldiers, two Englishmen, a Pole, an American and an Australian, who escape an Italian POW camp in the Second World War.<ref name="events" /><br />
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[[Alan Ladd]] was mentioned as a possibility as star.<ref>{{Cite news|title='No Time to Die' Likely for Ladd; Western Film Proposed for Brando |author=Schallert, Edwin|date=Mar 30, 1957|work=Los Angeles Times|page=B3}}</ref> In April 1957 Terence Young arrived in Hollywood to find two American leading men for the film.<ref>{{Cite news|title='No Time to Die' Bids for Americans; Cooper Classic Soon to Start|author=Schallert, Edwin|date=Apr 18, 1957|work=Los Angeles Times|page=C13}}</ref> [[Van Johnson]], who had just made a film with Young, was a leading contender.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Johnson Ponders London Film Role|author=Hopper, Hedda|date=May 31, 1957|work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=a3}}</ref> [[Jeff Chandler]] turned down the role (and fee of $200,000).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bernice Block Will Produce Shocker|author=Hopper, Hedda|date=Aug 15, 1957|work=Los Angeles Times|page=B8}}</ref><br />
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In August 1957 Victor Mature signed a two-picture contract with Warwick, ''No Time to Die'' and ''The Man Inside''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=STUDIO SUSPENDS KIM NOVAK PACT: Columbia Acts After She Refuses Paramount Role-- Debbie Reynolds to Star Nature Has Its Way|date=Aug 31, 1957|work=New York Times|page=18}}</ref><br />
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In September, Mature left England for six weeks of location filming in the [[Libyan Desert]], near [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]. The [[2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)|Queens Bays Tank Regiment]] assisted in production of the film.<ref name="events">{{Cite news|title=MOVIELAND EVENTS: Mature, Genn Will Migrate to Desert|date=Sep 4, 1957|work=Los Angeles Times|page=C9}}</ref><br />
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''No Time to Die'' featured authentic war time [[Cromwell tank]]s as well as post-war [[Centurion (tank)|Centurions]] and [[Charioteer (tank)|Charioteers]] as both British and German tanks. In the opening battle Leo Genn commands an [[AEC Armoured Car]] and wears the beret of the [[11th Hussars|Cherry Pickers]].<br />
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Sean Kelly was a South African actor who had been signed by Warwick to a seven-year contract.<ref>Newcomers Win Capital Film Breaks; Robinson to Enact Mad Bomber<br />
Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times9 Feb 1957: B3.</ref><br />
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It was the last in a seven-picture commitment between Warwick and Columbia.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Warwick Shrinks Overhead and Sked|url=https://archive.org/details/variety208-1957-10/page/n249/mode/1up/search/%22warwick+films%22?q=%22warwick+films%22|date=23 October 1957|page=4}}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
''Kinematograph Weekly'' listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Kinematograph Weekly|date=18 December 1958|first=Josh|last=Billings|page=7|title=Others in the Money}}</ref> When the film was initially released in the United States, it was 20 minutes shorter than the version released in the United Kingdom.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The 25th [[James Bond]] film, 2021's ''[[No Time to Die]]'', shares a title with this film, which was directed by [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]], produced by [[Albert R. Broccoli|Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli]], and written by [[Richard Maibaum]],<ref>Republic to Film Serling TV Play: Studio Acquires 'Taps on a Bugle,' Third Work Sold by Author of 'Patterns' By Thomas M. Pryor, Special to ''The New York Times''. (1923–Current file) 16 July 1955: 12.</ref><ref>Schallert, Edwin. "'No Time to Die' Bids for Americans; Cooper Classic Soon to Start," ''Los Angeles Times'' (1923–Current File) 18 Apr 1957: C13.</ref> the original director, producer and writer of the ''James Bond'' films.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150035571 ''No Time to Die''] at the British Film Institute<br />
* {{IMDb title|0052271}}<br />
* {{TCMDb title|18210}}<br />
* {{AllMovie title|112682}}<br />
* {{AFI film|id=52758|title=Tank Force}}<br />
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