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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BURTON,RICHARD
EAN: 0024543041900
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 7776
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: May 20, 1953
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Product Description:
Story of the Allied troops who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite being hopelessly outnumbered.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-MAY-2002
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
In his second Hollywood role (between Oscar-nominated turns in My Cousin Rachel and The Robe), Richard Burton stars as a Scottish commando put in charge of a battalion of the 9th Australian Division defending Tobruk. The Aussies don't like him, and with a year of grim North African duty already under his belt, he's not too crazy about his new responsibilities either. The outfit is charged with staving off the battering assaults of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for two months, to give the British Army time to regroup in Cairo and prepare for a counterattack. In the end, the "desert rats" play hell with the Desert Fox for 242 days, during which they and their commander develop some mutual respect.
This is a solid, workmanlike World War II picture that, having been made in 1953 rather than 1943, can acknowledge a degree of eccentric humanity and soldierly professionalism in the enemy. Featured guest star James Mason reprises his Rommel from The Desert Fox (1951)--playing all his scenes in German except for a scene of ironical repartee with Burton. Another distinguished Brit, Robert Newton, gets costar billing as a boozy, self-confessed coward who used to be Burton's schoolmaster once upon a time. However, a goodly number of Australians--including Chips Rafferty and Charles "Bud" Tingwell (still going strong nearly 50 years later in Paul Cox's wonderful Innocence)--rate at least as much screen time. Robert Wise directed, with a trimness that reminds us he started out as an editor, and the pungent black-and-white cinematography is by Lucien Ballard. --Richard T. Jameson
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A bit on the hammy side, but still a very enjoyable movie, depicts a true event during WWII and how war can make strange bed fellows. Good action and good effect for the time.
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Well the British took a beating but the Germans took a pounding, this movie has a great plot to go with the story. Now Richard Burton played in many movies but I'd have to say this is one of he's best on film.
This B/W flick will put you in the desert with the whole unit to fight the desert fox, all in all get this movie it's a good one.
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I enjoyed this movie, Its a different kind of work movie. I highly Recommended !
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This is a follow-up of sorts to The Desert Fox made a year or so previously .James Mason reprises his role as Field Marshall Rommel ,head of the Afrika Korps ,although this time out it is basically a cameo role as distinct from the star turn of the previous picture.
It tells the same story of the same battle ,this time from the perspective of the Ninth Australian Division .Richard Burton gives a forceful performance as Captain Roberts ,a British officer appointed to take charge of the Division ... Read More
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Richard Burton rises from pommy brass Captain to Lt. Colonel in 30 minutes. The rest of the film is a gritty classic in B/W with Burton playing off of a former schoolteacher who is now part of the Australian Army, and a battalion that Burton ends up commanding. In the end, he wins the love and devotion of the Aussies (would you expect less) in a desert warfare classic.
I would have liked to see more balance with coverage of Rommel and his forces, equally distinguished desert warriors, ... Read More
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