Raid on Rommel

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Audience Member In Libya in 1942[citation needed], Captain Alex Foster (Richard Burton), an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, remnants of a commando force and a medical unit, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the Libyan port town of Tobruk. On the way, they find an unexpected concentration of German tanks, and they surmise that a fuel depot must be hidden nearby. Foster, in Afrika Corps uniform, and Major Tarkington (Clinton Greyn), the medical officer as his 'prisoner', gain access to the depot and meet Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Wolfgang Preiss). During a friendly dispute over philately between Rommel and Tarkington, Foster notices a map which indicates the location of the fuel depot... The film was poorly received by critics. In 2006, the BBC's Radio Times wrote: "It says a lot for Richard Burton that he was able to plumb the depths in dreary Second World War action movies such as this one, about a British officer releasing prisoners to attack Tobruk, without doing any apparent damage to his career. Even the usually dependable director Henry Hathaway falters in this flawed effort that was originally meant for TV". This WWII Richard Burton warmovie is a bit different I must say. By that I am not meaning the fact that the film use footage shot for "Tobruk" four years earlier and that it´s not based on a true or real event, rather it has a different WWII vibe and feel. Despite poor reviews back in the days, I did like it. Trivia: The film was a massive flop and was quickly withdrawn from theaters. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Awful. 70s clothing in a war film the smallest of many continuity errors, poor acting, thin plot. I've wasted a couple of hours of my life on this dull piece of rubbish. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member A decent ww2 film, but they stole a lot of scenes from a superior film called "Tobruk" with Rock Hudson. Even so there are some amusing scenes here, like the stamp discussion with Rommel and the English doctor. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Admittedly, I come at this with a bias, since I can never get into war movies. These two hours I spent watching this were some of the longest of my life. I don't feel like it had anything meaningful to say or enough action to be interesting. The most interesting scenes were the ones with Rommel himself. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't give out rottens very often, and believe me I like Richard Burton in anything, but this movie really stunk up the place as a WWII yarn. It just had something about it that was poorly done. Maybe it was the direction, the shooting of it. I don't know, I am not in the business of being too precise about why I didn't get a good feel about this film. Barely worth watching once, if only for Burton's fine acting, but that couldn't save this one, even for me. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member When I saw this I was amazed to see that huge chunks of 'Tobruk' (which is a good film) had been spliced into this one -presumably to cut costs- with all the editing and continuity skills of a learned chimp. This films sucks so bad. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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