Ice Cold In Alex is a Second World Wardrama starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews in a story based on the novel by Christopher Landon about a small party of British soldiers and a nurse taking a hazardous journey across the desert to Alexandria. Ice Cold In Alex - referring to the lager beer - did much to publicise lager to the British public. Ice Cold In Alex was directed by J Lee Thompson in 1958. Research Ice Cold In Alex