Tripoli (film)
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| Directed by | Will Price |
| Screenplay by | Winston Miller |
| Story by | Will Price Winston Miller |
| Produced by | William H. Pine William C. Thomas |
| Starring | John Payne Maureen O'Hara Howard Da Silva Phillip Reed Grant Withers Lowell Gilmore Connie Gilchrist |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Howard A. Smith |
| Music by | Lucien Cailliet |
Production company | Pine-Thomas Productions |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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.