Escape in the Desert is a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward A. Blatt and written by Marvin Borowsky and Thomas Job.

The film stars Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning, Helmut Dantine, Alan Hale, Sr. and Samuel S. Hinds.

[1][2] The opening credits say that Escape in the Desert is adapted “from a play by Robert E Sherwood” without identifying the work: The Petrified Forest.

Four POWs from Nazi Germany escape American custody and eventually wind up taking over a small gas station/hotel in the desert.

The present film sets a young Dutch flier who is hitch-hiking across the United States against a band of Nazi soldiers who have escaped from a desert prison camp.