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Fawcett Movie Comic #16 (1952)
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This issue adapts the Columbia Pictures film "Ten Tall Men," starring Burt Lancaster in Technicolor. The story follows a military patrol in North Africa whose sergeant is captured by hostile forces; a fellow soldier uses a flare and strategic fire to signal nearby tribes for rescue, leading to a climactic battle where the patrol fights off the enemy with the help of allied forces while attempting to retrieve their captured comrade and escape the desert.