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The Battle of El Alamein( 1969)

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Montgomery's Iron Back 8th Army ... Rommel's Crack Africa Korps ... they met head on and tore the earth apart !

Overview

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!

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      Frederick Stafford

      Giorgio Borri

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      Enrico Maria Salerno

      Claudio Borri

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      George Hilton

      Lieutenant Graham

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      Robert Hossein

      Erwin Rommel

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      Michael Rennie

      Bernard Law Montgomery

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      Giuseppe Castellano

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      Sal Borgese

      Private Kapow

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      Nello Pazzafini

      Italian Sergeant

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      Riccardo Pizzuti

      Private Jailbird

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      Gérard Herter

      General Schwartz

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      Ettore Manni

      Italian Captain

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      Giuseppe Addobbati

      Georg Stumme

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      Tom Felleghy

      Ritter von Thoma

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      Andrea Fantasia

      Rommel's Doctor

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      Ira von Fürstenberg

      Marta

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      Renato Romano

      General Clifton

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      Edoardo Toniolo

      Major Baker

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      Luciano Catenacci

      Sergeant O'Hara

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      Massimo Righi

      Italian Soldier

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    5
    Written by CinemaSerf on Tue Jun 21 2022
    This could have been interesting, because it takes the perspective of the Italian troops charged by Mussolini with the capture of Alexandria in the 1942 North African campaign. It has a stab at drafting in an internationally recognised cast - Michael Rennie is Field Marshal Montgomery, and Robert Hossein features sparingly as Rommel, but for the most part this consists of a mediocre cast that I found made it quite difficult to distinguish between who was who, and on whose side! The dubbing didn't help, either, with the accents all but indistinguishable from each other and the quality of the pro...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • tank
    • north africa