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Richard Attenborough
Brody
John Gregson
Cpt Williams
Michael Craig
Cpt Cotton
Vincent Ball
Sgt Nesbitt
Percy Herbert
White
Ray McAnally
Sgt. Hardy
Barry Foster
Cpl. Matheson
George Murcell
Cpl. Simms
Andrew Faulds
Sgt. Parker
Harold Goodwin
Road Watch
Tony Thawnton
Capt. Tom
Wolf Frees
German Sergeant
George Mikell
German Officer
Martin Benson
German Half-track Officer
Joe Wadham
Soldier
Dermot Walsh
Commanding Officer
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Mar 25 2023
A squadron of hardy soldiers working on infiltration, enduring the searing heat of the WWII North Africa campaign, are despatched to blow up a fuel dump deep behind enemy lines. It's only when they reach the location they discover something way more perilous than petrol, and so much race back to HQ - with the Nazis hot on their trail - to inform their superiors of this potentially game-changing information. It's quite a familiar looking story that goes some way to depicting the harshness of desert warfare and of the gritty determination of those men sent to fight and survive in this most hostil...
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Keywords
- petrol
- nazi
- world war ii
- british army
- tank
- sahara desert
- patrol
- desert
- libyan desert
- north africa
- el alamein