---
title: 'Tripoli (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Will Price'
released: '1950-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'War'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tripoli-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043072/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tripoli (1950)

1950 · 95 min · War, Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

Tripoli is a 1950 American adventure film directed by Will Price, written by Winston Miller and starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed and Grant Withers. The film is a fictionalized account of the April 1805 Battle of Derna pitting the city of Derna, in modern-day Libya, against Tripoli, one of the four Barbary states in North Africa.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Will Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-price)
- **Screenplay:** [Winston Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/winston-miller)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Lucien Cailliet](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucien-cailliet)
- **Director of Photography:** [James Wong Howe](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-wong-howe)
- **Editor:** [Howard A. Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-a-smith)

## Cast

- [Ewing Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ewing-mitchell) as Elroy
- [Alberto Morin](https://cinepixo.com/people/alberto-morin)
- [Grandon Rhodes](https://cinepixo.com/people/grandon-rhodes) as Samuel Barron
- [Herbert Heyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-heyes) as William Eaton
- [Gregg Barton](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregg-barton) as Huggins
- [Frank Fenton](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-fenton) as Capt. Adams
- [Howard da Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-da-silva) as Capt. Demetrios
- [Jack Pennick](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-pennick) as Busch
- [Lowell Gilmore](https://cinepixo.com/people/lowell-gilmore) as Lt. Tripp
- [Connie Gilchrist](https://cinepixo.com/people/connie-gilchrist) as Henriette
- [John Payne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-payne) as Presley O'Bannon
- [Walter Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-reed) as Wade
- [Alan Napier](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-napier) as Khalil
- [Phillip Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/phillip-reed) as Hamet Karamanly
- [Grant Withers](https://cinepixo.com/people/grant-withers) as Sgt. Derek

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