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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. Much of the action footage was reused from the 1967 film Tobruk, and the storyline is also largely ...
- Harry Tatelman
- Hal Mooney
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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- Drama, War
- Henry Hathaway
- 1971-02-12
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
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Raid on Rommel features portions of two actual radio broadcasts made by American radio journalist Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), whose ground-breaking World War II program CBS World News Roundup was broadcast every night from England with the trademark opening phrase "This is London." The small role of "Cpl. Bill Wembley" was played by Michael ...
- Henry Hathaway, Jim Fargo
- Richard Burton
Throughout the summer of 1941, Rommel built up his forces and supplies and continued his attacks on Tobruk while the British, commanded now by Lt. Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, who had replaced Wavell, were building up the Eighth Army with the intention of invading Libya and relieving Tobruk in November. By now Rommel’s name had made headlines.
Alex Foster (Richard Burton), a captain in the British navy, heads to the Libyan seaport of Tobruk during World War II. The city, which offers access to important trade routes, has been taken over ...
