Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Lion of the Desert (1981) Rating: Starring: John Gielgud, Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger Director: Moustapha Akkad Category: Action / Adventure Studio: Anchor Bay Subtitles: [None] Length: 206 mins     The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 20-year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonization in Africa.Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani governor of Libya, confident that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of the Imperial Rome. Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man--Omar Mukhtar.A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar has committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime.