raid on rommel

Director: henry hathaway

Actor: richard burton,john colicos,clinton greyn,wolfgang preiss

Data Published: Fri Feb 12 1971

Genres: Drama,War

Key Words: woman in jeopardy,field marshal erwin rommel character,tobruk,mission,airplane shot down

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067650/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Rommel

Description: Raid on Rommel is a movie starring Richard Burton, John Colicos, and Clinton Greyn. In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret...

Plot: In Libya in 1942[citation needed], Captain Alex Foster (Burton), an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, remnants of a commando force and a medical unit, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the Libyan port town of Tobruk. On the way, they find an unexpected concentration of German tanks, and they surmise that a fuel depot must be hidden nearby. Foster, in Afrika Corps uniform, and Major Tarkington (Clinton Greyn), the medical officer as his 'prisoner', gain access to the depot and meet Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Wolfgang Preiss). During a friendly dispute over philately between Rommel and Tarkington, Foster notices a map which indicates the location of the fuel depot. They make excuses, leave, capture a tank, and blow up the fuel dump. They escape towards Tobruk, where they destroy a coastal battery. The prisoners are embarked in boats launched by attacking Royal Navy warships. However, Foster and Tarkington are captured by German soldiers. The film leaves their fates unexplained.