In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
- 6.4
- 1967
- Released
- 1h 47m
Rock Hudson
Major Donald Craig
George Peppard
Captain Kurt Bergman
Nigel Green
Colonel John Harker
Guy Stockwell
Lt. Max Mohnfeld
Jack Watson
Sgt. Maj. Jack Tyne
Norman Rossington
Alfie
Percy Herbert
Dolan
Liam Redmond
Henry Portman
Heidy Hunt
Cheryl Portman
Leo Gordon
Sgt. Krug
Robert Wolders
Corporal Bruckner
Curt Lowens
German ColonelAnthony Ashdown
Rico Cattani
Peter Coe
Lawrence Montaigne
Robert F. Hoy
Phil Adams
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Now there are a few curious casting choices here that do bamboozle a bit, but once it gets going it is quite a decent wartime adventure. Rock Hudson is the Canadian “Craig” who finds himself in North Africa implementing a plan he had thought had been kiboshed by the upper echelons of the British army. Namely, he is to assist “Col. Harker” (Nigel Green) in crossing eight hundred miles of unforgivin