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Raid on Rommel
He took o Rommel...the Sahara...and a unit of untrained me to blow the Desert Fox to Hell.
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
- Original title
- Raid on Rommel
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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CinemaSerf
Dec 28, 2025 · via TMDB
Is it just me, or is this just a fairly straightforward remake of “Tobruk” (1967)? Instead of Rock we have Richard, Burton, as he sets off deep behind enemy lines in North Africa to destroy a fuel dump that is going to help mobilise a couple of Panzer divisions for Rommel. He is supposed to take a crack team with him, but a mix up sees him saddled with a doctor (Clinton Greyn) and his patients who couldn’t hit a bull on the backside with an bulldozer. Things become even more precarious when they find themselves talking Prussian brown stamps with the Field Marshall himself (Wolfgang Preiss) - but maybe that might allow the observant “Foster” (Burton) to catch a glimpse of some top secret maps? From now on in, I could swear it actually uses some of the same footage from the other movie, especially at the end - which is certainly the best part of the film. Burton does enough, but nothing more really, and I couldn’t quite figure out just what Danielle De Metz was doing here at all. It takes the usual pop at the inadequacies of the Italians during the war, and it also endeavours to make Rommel out to be a civilised gentleman à la James Mason, but otherwise it’s really just a vehicle for a star who looked like he had bleached his hair specially for the part. It passes the time if you like the genre, but nothing more, sorry.
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Richard Burton
Capt. Alex Foster
John Colicos
Sgt. Maj. Allan MacKenzie
Wolfgang Preiss
Gen. Erwin Rommel
Clinton Greyn
Maj. Hugh Tarkington
Danielle De Metz
Vivianne Gagliardo
Christopher Cary
Conscientious Objector
John Orchard
Garth
Brook Williams
Reilly
Greg Mullavey
Brown
Ben Wright
Admiral
James O'Hara
Lt. Executive Officer (uncredited)
Robert Wolders
German Pilot (uncredited)
Erik Holland
Sentry at Checkpoint (uncredited)
Henry Bumstead
Art Direction
Bob Herron
Stunts
James Fargo
Assistant Director
Henry Hathaway
Director
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Feb 12, 1971
Originally rated GP
