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Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

Tobruk *** (1967, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 6447

Director Arthur Hiller’s exciting big-budget 1967 World War Two war drama stars George Peppard as German-Jewish Captain Kurt Bergman joining forces with freed Canadian POW Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson) and British commander Colonel John […]

Dec, 21

Raid on Rommel * (1971, Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6446

‘LIBYA – 1943. After almost three years of bitter desert warfare, Rommel’s brilliant use of his Panzer divisions has driven the British into a position of desperation. The fate of the Mediterranean hangs in the […]

Dec, 21

The Desert Rats *** (1953, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5408

Director Robert Wise’s standard studio-bound 1953 film dramatisation of the World War Two Tobruk campaign is a fairly involving war action adventure, thanks to the well-crafted 20th Century Fox studio production, the stalwart British players […]

May, 07

Five Graves to Cairo **** (1943, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 2663

Director Billy Wilder’s dynamic 1943 World War Two wartime suspense thriller is set in June 1942 in the North African desert where a small, isolated Saharan hotel inn named the Empress of Britain is owned by […]

Jul, 04

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