Danielle De Metz, Greg Mullavy, John Colicos

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 wit...( read more  read more... )h their mission. On the way they pick up and drug the mistress of an Italian general, blow up the entire fuel supply for the Afrika Korps, and swap philatelic gossip with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

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Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Release Date: February 12, 1971

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  • March 27, 2009
    i wouldnt say it was the best ever war movie i have ever seen or the best ever acting in a war movie i have ever seen

    the mission was deadly as ever in a classic type of movie

    what didnt help the movie was the fact that in some of the fight scenes the did show the same scene a ...( read more)few times
  • March 27, 2009
    well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...its got a good cast throughout this movie..i think that richard burton, john colicos, wolfgang preiss play good parts thorughou...( read more)t this movie..its a good war movie 2 watch...i think that the director of this Action & Adventure, Drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...its got a good cast...i think that the fight scenes n the gun shoot outs were pretty kewl throughout this movie,,,its a good movie 2 watch
  • March 27, 2009
    Same story as in Tobruk but a bit diferent
  • December 12, 2008
    Me and my best pal at primary school were obsessed with WWII tales of derring-do and lapped this up one afternoon in the school holidays when it was on telly.

    Apparantly made for TV originally, it stars typically sour-faced Dick Burton (revisiting the familiar ground of "The De...( read more)sert Rats") leading the pre-requisite rag-tag team on an attack on Tobruk. In fact, just about all the action shots were nicked from the Rock Hudson movie "Tobruk" from a few years earlier.
    Despite the obvious shortcomings it has a few memorable bits, lots of (nicked) explosions and the enviable bonus of a scene with Dick Burton going apes**t with a flame-thrower. And as for the cliffhanging climax; we all love a good old ambiguous ending,don't we?!

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