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#English-language_films
#1953_films
#1950s_war_films
#American_films
#World_War_II_films
#Films_set_in_Mongolia
#Films_set_in_deserts
#Gobi_Desert
#Films_directed_by_Robert_Wise
#20th_Century_Fox_films
Destination Gobi is a 1953 American Technicolor World War II film released by 20th Century-Fox.
It was produced by Stanley Rubin, directed by Robert Wise （his first color feature film） and stars Richard Widmark and Don Taylor.
U.S. Navy chief Sam McHale takes command of a unit of weather observers stranded behind Japanese lines deep in Inner Mongolia.
McHale must lead his men across the treacherous Gobi Desert to the sea coast.
Mongols whom the sailors had befriended, led by chief Tengu, help them elude the Japanese and steal a Chinese junk in order to reach Okinawa.
After the picture's opening credits, a written foreword reads: In the Navy records in Washington, there is an obscure entry reading "Saddles for Gobi." This film is
based on the story behind that entry - one of the strangest stories of World War II. The unit involved was part of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization （SACO）,
referred to as Sino-American Combined Operations in the film.
Actor Ernest Borgnine has stated in interviews that he believed that this film, and Widmark's role of CPO Sam McHale, were the basis of the role of Quentin McHale in the television show McHale's Navy.
Argos Detachment 6 is a Navy unit operating a weather station in the Gobi Desert during World War II. Heading the small outfit is meteorologist Lt.
Cmdr.
Hobart Wyatt, but the group's ramrod is CPO Sam McHale, a tough-as-nails efficiency expert.
He is all-Navy and a literal fish out of water in the Gobi, having served for years at sea.
One evening, a tribe of Mongolian nomads led by Kengt set up camp at the station's oasis.
Despite stark cultural differences, the two groups settle into uneasy co-existence.
In fact, Seaman Jenkins, a...

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