What sickness was carried by the CSS Texas in Sahara?
In the 2005 adventure film "Sahara", treasure hunter Dirk Pitt is tracking down a Confederate ironclad named the CSS Texas, believing it to have sailed up the Niger River to an unknown location. He speaks to a priest at Labbezanga and they find the following record from the time:
Six days after the great storm, a dark ship rode without sails under the banner of a single star. It was driven upriver, never to return, bearing... death. It brought a sickness from here up to Gao, and bore over 300 souls to heaven. It was believed a damnation from Allah.
At the same time, WHO doctor Eva Rojas is investigating a plague-like sickness originating in Mali. We later find that the sickness is being caused by
illegal storage of toxic materials underneath a solar energy plant in Mali.
I haven't read the Clive Cussler novels, so I'm not familiar with the book version of events. Obviously the Texas wasn't carrying that same sickness, however.
What was the nature of the sickness carried by the CSS Texas?
Best Answer
An unnamed Tropical Disease
The novel and movie cover some of the same ground but differ in a number of ways.
The ship, its contents and the mortal remains of its crew, they having succumbed to a tropical disease, are a century later discovered buried in an old, dried up riverbed of the Niger River.
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What is the plague in the movie Sahara?
He's searching for a Civil War battleship; she's tracking the cause of an outbreak of what looks like bubonic plague before it turns into an epidemic. He saves her from rape and murder at the hands of warring rebels. She enlists his aid to get to Mali.Was the movie Sahara based on a true story?
The storyline is based on the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald, and an incident depicted in the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen by Mikhail Romm....Sahara (1943 American film)SaharaStory byPhilip MacDonald (as Philip Macdonald)Based onThe Thirteen 1936 Soviet film by Mikhail RommProduced byHarry Joe Brown16 more rowsDid Matthew McConaughey do his own stunts in Sahara?
He Did Many Of His Own Stunts In 'Sahara' Matthew McConaughey did many of his own stunts in the film, and would have done more had producers (and insurance companies) allowed him. According to director Breck Eisner, "[He] would have done every stunt in the movie if the insurance company had let him."Why did Sahara movie fail?
The production was as fiscally irresponsible as filmmaking gets, with the original $80 million budget doubling to $160 million and distribution costs added $81.1 million to the already out of control spend.War Scene 6# - Sahara - Ironclad - Intro
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