Tripoli Action 1950 John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva
The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with"From the halls of
Montezuma to the shores of
Tripoli", and this film's story purports to be the reason why, and is give or take a few incidents in this movie: It is 1805 and the Tripoli pirates have challenged
America's right to freedom of the seas---all of them, anywhere---so
United Stares warships were sent to that port to bottle up their fleet and set the riff-raff right concerning who could sail where. (
History begins to suffer a bit along about this
point.)
A U. S.
Marine unit, headed by
Lieutenant O'Bannon, was sent to attack them from the rear. He organized his unit around Hamet,
Pasha of Tripoli, in exile after being overthrown by his brother. In Hamet's court was
Sheila D'Arneau, a diploma's daughter, who disguises herself as a dancing girl,
...