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      Raid on Rommel

      PG 1971 1h 39m War List
      Reviews 31% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Alex Foster (Richard Burton), a captain in the British navy, heads to the Libyan seaport of Tobruk during World War II. The city, which offers access to important trade routes, has been taken over by the Germans, and Foster goes undercover as a Nazi to reunite with British soldiers being held behind enemy lines and lead them to seize control of the port. When Foster discovers the soldiers are in fact sick POWs, he must find a way to lead the unhealthy men in a successful mission anyway. Read More Read Less

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      Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press It's a terribly complicated and not very interesting plot. Apr 3, 2019 Full Review David N. Butterworth rec.arts.movies.reviews A rubbish film of the post-consumer recycled variety. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 17, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 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 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review dave j Tuesday, May 29, 2012 (1971) Raid On Rommel SPAGHETTI WAR European production starring Richard Burton as commander of a squadron to first help Paton by destroying Rommels gas tanks then escape by breaking through Nazi barriers with battleships entering the desert coast. Some have said this is a cheaper version of Tobruk. Quite boring and typical of Spaghettti War movies! 2 out of 4 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 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 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 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 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Alex Foster (Richard Burton), a captain in the British navy, heads to the Libyan seaport of Tobruk during World War II. The city, which offers access to important trade routes, has been taken over by the Germans, and Foster goes undercover as a Nazi to reunite with British soldiers being held behind enemy lines and lead them to seize control of the port. When Foster discovers the soldiers are in fact sick POWs, he must find a way to lead the unhealthy men in a successful mission anyway.
      Director
      Henry Hathaway
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      War
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 28, 2011
      Runtime
      1h 39m