He took o Rommel...the Sahara...and a unit of untrained me to blow the Desert Fox to Hell.
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20256/10
Is it just me, or is this just a fairly straightforward remake of “Tobruk” (1967)? Instead of Rock we have Richard, Burton, as he sets off deep behind enemy lines in North Africa to destroy a fuel dump that is going to help mobilise a couple of Panzer divisions for Rommel. He is supposed to take a crack team with him, but a mix up sees him saddled with a doctor (Clinton Greyn) and his patients who couldn’t hit a bull on the backside with an bulldozer. Things become even more precarious when they find themselves talking Prussian brown stamps with the Field Marshall himself (Wolfgang Preiss) - but maybe that might allow the observant “Foster” (Burton) to catch a glimpse of some top secret maps? From now on in, I could swear it actually uses some of the same footage from the other movie, especially at the end - which is certainly the best part of the film. Burton does enough, but nothing more really, and I couldn’t quite figure out just what Danielle De Metz was doing here at all. It takes the usual pop at the inadequacies of the Italians during the war, and it also endeavours to make Rommel out to be a civilised gentleman à la James Mason, but otherwise it’s really just a vehicle for
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Cast
- Richard BurtonCapt. Alex Foster
- John ColicosSgt. Maj. Allan MacKenzie
- Wolfgang PreissGen. Erwin Rommel
- Clinton GreynMaj. Hugh Tarkington
- Danielle De MetzVivianne Gagliardo
- Karl-Otto AlbertySchroeder
- Christopher CaryConscientious Objector
- John OrchardGarth
- Brook WilliamsReilly
- Greg MullaveyBrown
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- Henry HathawayDirector
- Richard M. BluelScreenplay
- Earl RathDirector of Photography
- Hal MooneyOriginal Music Composer
- Gene PalmerEditor
- Harry TatelmanProducer
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