Raid on Rommel (1971)

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British commando leads a mission to blow up German gun positions in Tobruk. The film reuses action scenes from an earlier movie about the same battle.

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What happens

Raid on Rommel is a 1971 American war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Danielle De Metz and Wolfgang Preiss. The film centers on a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk. Originally intended as a made-for-television film, Raid on Rommel extensively reuses action footage from 1967's Tobruk, and the storyline is also largely the same. The film was released by Universal Pictures on February 12, 1971, and was both a critical and commercial failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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