Tripoli (film)

Tripoli
Film poster
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
Release date	November 9, 1950 (1950-11-09)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.6 million[1]

Tripoli is a 1950 American adventure film directed by Will Price and written by Winston Miller. The film is a fictionalized account of the Battle of Derna at Derna, a coastal town in modern eastern Libya in April 1805 against Tripoli, one of the four Barbary states in North Africa and stars John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers, Lowell Gilmore and Connie Gilchrist. The film was released on November 9, 1950, by Paramount Pictures.^[2] The film was re-released by Citation Films Inc. and retitled The First Marines.