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Director:
Henry Hathaway
Writer:
Richard M. Bluel (writer)
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Release Date:
12 February 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War | Action more
Plot:
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A really bad movie more (13 total)

Cast

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Richard Burton ... Capt. Alex Foster
John Colicos ... Sgt. Maj. Allan MacKenzie
Clinton Greyn ... Maj. Hugh Tarkington
Wolfgang Preiss ... Gen. Erwin Rommel
Danielle De Metz ... Vivianne Gagliardo
Karl-Otto Alberty ... Capt. Heinz Schroeder
Christopher Cary ... Cpl. Peter Merrihew
John Orchard ... Dan Garth
Brook Williams ... Sgt. Joe Reilly

Greg Mullavey ... Pvt. Ed Brown
Ben Wright ... Admiral
Michael Sevareid ... Cpl. Bill Wembley
Chris Anders ... Tank Sergeant
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Ron Berkeley
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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Filming Locations:
Mexico more

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Trivia:
Average Shot Length (ASL) = ~4.9 seconds. Median Shot Length 4 seconds. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Captain Foster fires more than the maximum magazine load of 8 shots from his Walther P38 pistol when he kills Captain Schroeder. more
Quotes:
Maj. Hugh Tarkington: You know Rommel?
Capt. Heinz Schroeder: Yes. He loves the Sahara. We all do. By "we", I mean the professional military.
Maj. Hugh Tarkington: I'm not a military man, captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.
Capt. Heinz Schroeder: Here there are no side effects. No women, no children, no towns to get in the way, just men, my doctor.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gamera vs. Guiron (#4.12)" (1991) more

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13 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
A really bad movie, 30 September 2003
2/10
Author: rps-2 from Bracebridge Ont

The history is wrong. The props are inaccurate. The story is over the top derring do nonsense. It was the presence of Richard Burton that drew me to this turkey. Alas, it must have been his worst role. I fail to see how any film maker can be so careless with his subject and so contemptuous of his audience. The Germans did not use flying boats and certainly not in the desert. The Wehrmacht did not use the type of campaign ribbon shown on the German uniforms. There are no puffy white clouds over the Libyan desert. Edward R. Murrow's CBS broadcasts could not have been heard in Africa. And on and on and on. Nor have we even approached the absurd plot, complete with an Italian bimbo and a philatelic Erwin Rommel. Or the very chintzy special effects. Nope. My one line summary says it all. A really bad movie!

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