Richard Burton
Capt. Alex Foster
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Raid on Rommel is an American B movie in Technicolor from 1971, directed by Henry Hathaway and set in North Africa during the Second World War. It stars Richard Burton as a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk.
Feb 12, 1971 · Raid on Rommel: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss. In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
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Oct 23, 2014 · Raid On Rommel Trailer 1971 Director: Henry Hathaway Starring: John Colicos, Richard Burton, , , , Official Content From Universal Studios Home Entertainment A British soldier goes undercover...
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Operation Flipper (also called the Rommel Raid) was a British commando raid during the Second World War, mainly by men from No. 11 (Scottish) Commando. The operation included an attack on the headquarters of Erwin Rommel, the commander of Panzergruppe Afrika in North Africa.
- 10-18 November 1941
- Axis victory
Raid on Rommel. PG 1971 1h 39m War. List. Alex Foster (Richard Burton), a captain in the British navy, heads to the Libyan seaport of Tobruk during World War II.
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- Henry Hathaway
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- Richard Burton
Brief Synopsis. 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. Despite all odds they succeed with their mission.
The British invasion of Libya, Operation Crusader, was scheduled to begin on November 18. General Cunningham planned to lure Rommel into a trap where his forces would be decimated by much superior numbers of British tanks. He had included in his battle plan two operations by commandos.
