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18/01/1969 War, Action 1h 36m
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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!

  1. Giorgio Ferroni

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Frederick Stafford

    Giorgio Borri

  2. Enrico Maria Salerno

    Claudio Borri

  3. George Hilton

    Lieutenant Graham

  4. Robert Hossein

    Erwin Rommel

  5. Michael Rennie

    Bernard Law Montgomery

  6. Giuseppe Castellano

  7. Sal Borgese

    Private Kapow

  8. Nello Pazzafini

    Italian Sergeant

  9. Riccardo Pizzuti

    Private Jailbird

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Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-21
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 pr...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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