Movie "The first victory"

To whom it may concern:

I am currently preparing a web publication of the personal diary of a Dutch girl during the siege of Nijmegen in 1944-1945. (In Dutch; http://www.livius.org/gewonemensen/1943/ nijmegen01.html.) She mentions that after the liberation, the cinema showed a movie called 'The first victory'; it told the story of El-Alamein.

I can not find more information about this movie, which is absent from the Internet Movie Database and other sources I checked. I suspect that the girl's diary contains a mistake. Does anybody have an idea?

It might have been a documentary called 'Desert Victory' in English. It was quite popular in the UK and even the US.

See the IMDB's listing here:

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035796/>

Andrew Warinner This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

It could have been the 1943 movie 'Five Graves to Cairo' under a different name.

Rough guess: 'Desert Victory'

Hi,

cad99o$ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

I suppose it could be either *Tunisian Victory*, by Frank Capra (1944, more a documentary than fiction) or *Desert Victory*, by Roy Boulting (1943).

Greetings from Italy

Giuseppe Stilo Pinerolo (Turin) - Italy

Perhaps Desert Victory ?