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starring: Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss, Danielle De Metzdirected by: Henry Hathaway
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304288566
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6304288565
Label: Good Times Home Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Home Video
Release Date: November 07, 1996
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 7279
Studio: Good Times Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1971
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Rating:  - Richard Burton Returns to North Africa
Admittedly, Henry Hathaway's "Raid on Rommel" isn't the masterpiece that Brian Hutton's "Where Eagles Dare" was for Richard Burton, but this low-budget World War II epic about an unlikely British commando unit operating behind Nazi lines in North Africa doesn't qualify as a complete bust. Richard M. Bluel's screenplay is predictable but entertaining. Sure, better movies about the British North African campaign have been made going back as early as "The Desert Rats of Tobruk" (1944) and then in the ... Read More
Rating:  - The only good parts are what they stole from Tobruk
The only good parts are what they stole from Tobruk.
This is a poor imitation of the movie Tobruk (1967).
I can't believe this one gets released on DVD, but we are still waiting for Tobruk.
Some other great war movies yet to be released on DVD
Red Ball Express (1952)
Destination Gobi (1953)
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
But the Brave (1965)
The Secret Invasion (1964)
The Bold and the Brave (1956)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Dunkirk ... Read More
Rating: - Desert Version of Where Eagles Dare
Yet another motion picture vehicle for Richard Burton to play commando and destroy the Nazi war effort in North Africa. Burton's character is very similar to the part he played in WHERE EAGLES DARE, and later reprised in THE WILD GEESE. Burton goes behind enemy lines to destroy Italian coastal artillery on the Libyan coast. The mission goes awry. Burton is forced to come up with an alternative plan that includes the destruction of the Afrika Korps fuel reserves using an ad hoc group of POWs.
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Rating: - For the love of all that is good do not see !
My friend gave this DVD to me,
Upon reflection I think he did it just to make me mad.
Where shall I start ... tanks which for the majority of which look nothing like the actual German ones. The actor who plays Rommel looks NOTHING like him. The uniform Rommel wears does not match any recorded one I know of in Africa during WW2.
Plot about as thin as an atom and much less substance to it.
Rating: - Raid On Rommel with Sir Ricard Burton
An explosive film
Richard Burton and Star Trek villain John Colicos play British intelligence officers who attack German desert defenses in this 1971 film. The best battle scenes are toward the end of the film when Burton's character sets the base aflame with his tanks and flame-throwers. It was exciting to see him a realistic action hero. There were no Stallone like scenes with him out fighting the enemy. He was more clever and deceptive in making the Nazi's believe he was one of them. They ... Read More
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