The Desert Rats
They crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 23, 2006
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Mason & Richard Burton | |
Performer: | Robert Newton, Chips Rafferty, Torin Thatcher, Robert Douglas, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Charles Davis, Ben Wright & James Lilburn | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Edited by | Barbara McLean | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Murphy | |
Composition by | Leigh Harline | |
Produced by | Robert L. Jacks | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
Looks just like many other war films that salute the glories of war.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A sort of earlier-in-time sequel to Desert Fox, this is a Hollywood tribute to the defenders of Tobruk and has several satisfying moments.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 55/100 --
Doesn't fare very well as a work of cinema, but if you take it as a fictionalised History channel documentary, you might find it compelling.
Apollo Guide
Product Description:
A sequel to the riveting and immensely popular THE DESERT FOX (directed by Henry Hathaway in 1951), THE DESERT RATS is a sweeping evocation of the North Africa campaign during World War II. In this expertly filmed adventure, British commando Captain Tammy MacRoberts (Richard Burton) takes charge of a hopelessly outnumbered but stubbornly defiant 9th Australian division at Tobruk in 1941 in their heroic stand against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (James Mason, reprising his role from the first film) and his Afrika Corps. Their new leader wastes no time in alienating his men by implying they are inferior, but the Australians prove themselves both plucky and amusing. Among the garrison is Tom Bartlett (Robert Newman), MacRoberts's old English teacher at college who is a lowly volunteer and a raging alcoholic. When MacRoberts leads a commando raid behind enemy lines and is captured, he is taken to a German field hospital tent where he meets the infamous Rommel, the two conversing civilly about war in one of the film's most intriguing scenes. A fascinating and exciting tale, THE DESERT RATS is beautifully photographed, and the interplay between the characters enhances the already interesting, factual story.
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- Sales Rank: 122,990
- UPC: 024543041917
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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