The Steel Lady

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I remember seeing this film on T-V about 1959. I only saw a portion and have been looking for it ever since. It made an impression on me that I have carried for years. I have explained the part that I could remember to others and all anyone could say was "Flight Of the Phoenix". I have seen this movie and was very disappointed. Only today, 03/10/05, did I finally figure out the name of it, with the help of the internet! I would very much like to see this movie in it's entirety. As an Engineer, several previous reviews "Hit the nail on the head" about the practicality and plot intrigue. If anyone knows where it can be found, please comment on this web site or e-mail me at Mike.Milord@gdc4s.com.

I saw this movie only once, on a TV Late Show in 1962, and had to leave in the middle for some other business. I never knew how it ended. I never saw it broadcast since. And, as a B-movie, it was generally unavailable, but now I see that it has been transferred to DVD. I could not recall who starred in it either. Imagine my surprise (and delight) that TCM chose to program it around noon on Sept. 19, 2016. This was 54 YEARS since I first saw it. Talk about closure. I enjoyed the somewhat hard-to-believe premise of the story, and the dealings with the (fake) camel jockey Arabs, who probably would have killed the Americans on first sight—knowing today how they feel about unbelievers. Still, the movie is compelling on a small scale, and well worth watching.

I have seen this film at least 5 time as a viewer from my early teens through late 20's and as a U.S. Army Post theater projectionist I ran the film every night for four days. The picture is about several oil men in a multi-engine transport plane that gets caught in a sand storm which chokes up the engines forcing the pilot to crash-land in the middle of the desert (I believe the Flight of the Phoenix films were remakes of this movie). Using parts from the plane they use to refurbish a German WWII army tank they find (The German name on the side of the tank translates roughly to The Steel Lady), they fight their way to the rescue point for a very heroic ending I will not give away. Decently acted and a must see. I give it a high rating of 8.

I remember seeing this film in the late fifties on TV. When I decided to track it down all I could remember was a group of guys uncover a tank in the desert, manage to get it up and running and blast a few desert nomads. For some reason I also knew Rod Cameron was the star.Being a 16mm film collector I asked around and a fellow in California told me the title when I provided him with as much of the story line as I remembered. Some time later another friend helped me find a VHS copy. Boy did it bring back memories. Since that time with the help of E-bay, I've been able to find a complete set of lobby cards, the press book, the insert, the half sheet, the one sheet, the three sheet and a 16mm print. Its great to able to watch it on an eight foot movie screen. If there's any interest I may be able to get the 16mm print transfered to tape or DVD. I can be contacted at Knightra49@hotmail.com Update. I now have The Steel Lady on DVD, very good quality.

Saw this film with my buddies as a kid many, many years ago. We were 5th and 6th graders, and we all loved the movie. Though perhaps a little contrived, the story was quite original, and kept us glued to our seats. "The Steel Lady" was one of the best action/adventure "B" movies I saw back in the 1950s. Now I'm 60, and my movie preferences are somewhat more sophisticated than they were 50 years ago, but I still would like to see this movie one more time before I'm watching flicks on the big screen in the sky... I'd love to buy it, but for some reason I have not been able to find it on the Internet. I might add, that before passing judgement on a movie from the past, one should probably take into consideration when the movie was made, and the viewing audience it was made for.

The previous review is ridiculous. This was a fascinating adventure yarn that had me riveted when I saw it at age 12. It is about a plane crash in the desert where the survivors discover a buried WWII tank after a storm exposes the turret. The idea of fixing up a tank that has been in the desert for 10 years with the remnants of a plane crash, (oil gas, parts,) is totally possible. Our government stores planes, tanks, trucks etc. in the desert because they do not rust or deteriorate. I have not been able to see it since as it is not available anywhere, as far as I know. For a '50s adventure movie it is great.

I first saw this movie on television in the 60s, and still remember it for its feel of adventure( finding a lost German tank after a sandstorm) and enjoyed some intersting to watch B-movie character actors (Rod Cameron, John Dehner, Tab Hunter as a young hero-worshiping oil hand, and others). The running fights between the tank and the arabs was also fairly well-staged. I have hoped for years that this movie would be finally offered on VHS. I would definitely buy it. Although its scope is considerably smaller than Bogart's SAHARA(a WW2 movie about a wayward tank and its crew struggling to survive) it still holds up well as a simple adventure feature and I'd love it to see it again..