When the SS tries to torture Thatcher into confessing, Captain Ritter becomes so disgusted that he helps the men escape and then commits suicide. 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. Over the course of the trip the Pole grows increasingly homicidal, indiscriminately killing two German officers the group captures. They escape through the Libyan Desert in 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). 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). 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 three survivors are quickly captured and transported to an Italian POW camp run by German Army Captain Ritter ( Alfred Burke). Kendall ( Leo Genn), becomes stuck in the sand and the crew bail out too. The squadron's attached reconnaissance vehicle, commanded by Sgt. David Thatcher ( Victor Mature) is hit and he and driver Trooper "Tiger" Noakes ( Anthony Newley) bail out. In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers. In the US, the film was renamed Tank Force!. No Time to Die is a 1958 British war film about an American sergeant in the British Army during the Second World War.
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