| Tripoli | |
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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[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.
- ^ "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
- ^ Tripoli at the TCM Movie Database