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Christopher Cary, John Colicos, Danielle De Metz, Clinton Greyn, Greg Mullavey ... see more see more... , John Orchard , Wolfgang Preiss , Brook Williams , Ben Wright , Richard Burton , Karl Otto Alberty , Chris Anders

The British fleet is enroute to North Africa to engage the Germans, and the best port for them to use is Tobruk. There, they have problems: Germans occupy Tobruk, and have fortified it with devastatin... read more read more...g heavy artillery which would prevent a British landing. The original scheme for sabotaging the guns, by using British commandos planted behind the lines as prisoners of war, has gone awry. Posing as a Nazi officer, the man who was to lead the attack (Richard Burton) arrives at the rendezvous point, but all he finds are genuine prisoners of war, all of them sick, accompanied by their medics who are pacifists. A great many British lives hang in the balance, and a failure here could affect the outcome of the entire Second World War. Somehow, he must make use of these unlikely recruits to carry out the raid. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Release Date: February 12, 1971

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DVD Release Date: May 18, 1998

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  • scrambledegg7
    March 22, 2011
    scrambledegg7
    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 o... read morenes with Rommel himself.

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