The Desert Rats

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Directed by Robert Wise, The Desert Rats stars Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton and Robert Douglas. It runs 1h 28m and holds a 6.3/10 average rating on TMDB from 101 votes. The war and action movie was released on March 26, 1953 by 20th Century Fox (United States of America), originally in German. Its tagline sums it up: "They crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory!".

The story: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.

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