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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.
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.
Richard Burton stars in this exciting story of the stubborn, courageous men who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite hopelessly outnumbered.
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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Desert Rats, The - (Original Trailer) A desperate band of Allied soldiers fights off the Nazis in North Africa in The Desert Rats (1953).
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The narrative unfolds in the desolate North African desert, where the British Eighth Army, led by Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts, is tasked with defending Tobruk against the advancing German forces commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
