Tripoli (film)

Tripoli
Film poster
Directed byWill Price
Screenplay byWinston Miller
Story byWill Price
Winston Miller
Produced byWilliam H. Pine
William C. Thomas
StarringJohn Payne
Maureen O'Hara
Howard Da Silva
Phillip Reed
Grant Withers
Lowell Gilmore
Connie Gilchrist
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byHoward A. Smith
Music byLucien Cailliet
Production
company
Pine-Thomas Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • November 9, 1950 (1950-11-09) (New York)
  • November 30, 1950 (1950-11-30) (Los Angeles)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.6 million

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.

The film was released on November 9, 1950 by Paramount Pictures and rereleased by Citation Films as The First Marines.