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    Desert Rats, The (1953)

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    A rather aloof desert-stormer, meant as a follow-up to The Desert Fox (1951) and again boasting James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel – this time ordering the Battle of Tobruk in 1941 against Allied forces that include Richard Burton commanding Aussie troops.

    Burton has his own problems with his cowardly and alcoholic old schoolteacher turned volunteer, Robert Newton, but still manages to bring down Rommel’s forces.

    Captain MacRoberts
    Richard Burton
    Bartlett
    Robert Newton
    General
    Robert Douglas
    Barney
    Torin Thatcher
    Smith
    Chips Rafferty
    Lieutenant Carstairs
    Charles Tingwell
    Rommel
    James Mason
    Pete
    Charles Davis
    Mick
    Ben Wright
    Riley
    John O’Malley
    Hugh
    Ray Harden

    Director
    Robert Wise

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