Plot SynopsisDay 1: Friday Early MorningThe film opens with shots of a bleak and decayed urban environment in an unnamed (the opening sequence was filmed in Cincinnati, OH), smoggy midwestern locale - this establishes a documentary, nitty-gritty feel to the film.Brighton: Oh.What are you to do for the Arab Bureau?Lawrence: It""s rather vague sir.I""m to ""appreciate"" the situation.Brighton: Well, that won""t be difficult.The situation""s bloody awful.The morale, if anybody had any, which I doubt, the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina with howitzers.Security forces within the bank were quickly neutralized and killed as Gruber directed heavy equipment to drill through the underground bank wall, to gain access to the bullion vaults, and to scoop up the gold bars and deposit them in the dump trucks.He tells the touring Nicholson that he and he Australian are the only remaining survivors of the original POWs who built the camp: "Mostly Aussies, some Lime, some British, Indians, Burmese, Siamese.