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  1. The Desert Rats is a 1953 American black-and-white war film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Robert L. Jacks, directed by Robert Wise, that stars Richard Burton, James Mason, and Robert Newton. The film's storyline concerns the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 North Africa during World War II.

  2. The Desert Rats: Directed by Robert Wise. With Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas. Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.

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    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Robert Wise
    • 1953-05-20
  3. Richard Burton stars in this exciting story of the stubborn, courageous men who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and Rommel has the British in ...

  4. In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel (James Mason) and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of...

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    • Richard Burton
    • Robert Wise
    • War
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  5. Synopsis. In mid-Apr 1941, during World War II, Germany's Afrika Korps, led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, has repeatedly beaten the Allies in the struggle for control of North Africa. Desperate to prevent Rommel from gaining control of the Suez Canal, the British Army, in retreat and trying to rebuild its strength, establishes one last ...

    • Robert Wise, J. Richard Maybery
    • Richard Burton
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  8. Mar 27, 2008 · Richard Burton stars as a British army officer in charge of a battalion of Australian troops fighting the Germans near Tobruk during the North African campaign of WW ...more. This movie was ...

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