Good attempt at a period movie, but too many anachronisms

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2020)

Some reviewers labeled this movie as a WWII 'war movie,' but it has too many anachronisms to be qualified as such. For example: the archaeological expedition folds when the war looms (i.e. sometime before September 1, 1939). The death (and fatal injury) of the Cliftons in the air crash closely follows therafter. Almacy's own air crash, caused by German flak, follows not long after. However, Rommel's Africa Corps did not arrive in North Africa until early 1941: that means there were no Germans there at the time Almacy's plane was supposedly shot down by them.