The Desert Rats
They crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory!
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- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- War
Overview
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Keywords
- world war ii
- desert
- libyan desert
- rommel
- tobruk
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 26, 1953
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Cast
- Richard Burton,James Mason,Robert Newton,Robert Douglas,Torin Thatcher,Chips Rafferty,Charles Tingwell,Charles Davis,Ben Wright,Patrick Aherneand 38 more
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Writer
- Richard Murphy
- Producer
- Robert L. Jacks
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Music
- Leigh Harline
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0045679