No Time to Die (1958 film)

; also known as Tankforce) is a 1958 British war film directed by Terrence Young and starring Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Anthony Newley and Bonar Colleano.

In Italian Libya during the North African campaign of the Second World War, a Royal Armoured Corps squadron of British tanks is destroyed in battle by German Afrika Korps panzers.

The three survivors are quickly captured and transported to an Italian POW camp run by German Army Captain Ritter.

Unbeknownst to the Axis prison guards, Thatcher had previously tried to assassinate Joseph Goebbels in revenge for the killing of his Jewish wife and tries to escape at every turn before the Nazis discover his secret.

After Kendall vows to court-martial the Pole when they return home, he allows a Bedouin tribe led by a sheikh loyal to the SS to kill Bartlett and capture the surviving men.

The script eventually became about five Allied soldiers, two Englishmen, a Pole, an American and an Australian, who escape an Italian POW camp in the Second World War.

In the opening battle Leo Genn commands an AEC armoured car and wears the beret of the Cherry Pickers.

[16] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "No Time to Die is a briskly efficient escape drama pitched on the breathless level of a Boy's Own Paper adventure.

Every racial stereotype in the book stands to attention as Mature lurches from one heroic deed to the next, culminating in a joust with a Panzer tank.