British forces must destroy gun emplacements in Tobruk. Richard Burton once again gives n outstanding performance as Alex Foster who must destroy the German guns. This movie is a mixture of the guns of Naverone and battle of the bulge as you have American tanks m41 walker bulldogs and m48 Patton as German Panzers ( all of which is footage lifted from Tobruk ) similar to the bulge film. You have Burton exactly copying the actions of Peppard to fit the stock footage of Tobruk into the action scenes of this film. However this is what lets the film down as it doesn't use any new footage as far as battle scenes are concerned it is like watching Tobruk again but just with different actors. Still worth a watch as it is exciting and well acted

Richard Burton stars this film in which he is the British Captain Foster, who rescues some British doctors and some few soldiers from e convoy in which the Germans carried them to Tobruk. Captain Foster divide these British men so that some of them feign to be German and the others are the sick ones. So, leaving the German soldiers in the desert, they go to Tobruk, where they destroy the fuel deposits and then the canons so that the British Army can arrive at Tobruk port. Although the plot can sound nice and entertaining, Hathaway does not develop their characters (for example, the Italian prostitute is only decorative) and the Germans are very easy to be cheated. The director tries to adapt to the modern times, using many zooms and, perhaps, from the content point of view, in the character of Richard Burton, who is really an antihero: Captain Foster is a Maquiavellian man, who does not respect the Geneva conventions'rules, attacking a sanitary German convoy and using prisoners of war to get his aim. There two curiosities about this movie that I would like to remark: the first one is the use of war images from Tobruk by Arthur Hiller, which was also produced by Universal; the second one is that the filming location was in San Felipe, in Baja California Norte (Mexico) in spite of Africa. These facts show us that this film was B war movie in budget and in quality.

This is not a horrible war film. Rock Hudson really ... wait ... its Richard Burton! This movie is an example of what happens with a small budget, one star and copyright to any film archive. How many films show footage of "Tora, Tora,Tora"? Same here. Almost 75% of the film is footage taken from the 1967 movie "Tobruk" starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard. The idea apparently was to take one movie, create a different plot line and use the same film. It almost works! Most of the cuts from the "Tobruk" film to new scenes filmed are seamless (almost, watch as the halftracks change color and type every few minutes.) But one of the problems are the little incidentals. The female spy in Hudson's movie is in many of the scenes. So what to do? Well, create a character that does nothing to forward the plot except as eye candy. Problem solved. But otherwise a typical 70s war film if you can get past that problem with "Tobruk". A little research might help. The opening credit for Rommel's army in 1943 is alittle out of perspective. By 1943 the Germans were falling back from the Americans and British on two fronts and early in the year Tobruk was in Allied hands. Oh well, lets just suspend our belief for a second. The only complaint would be the surprising poor acting of Karl Otto Abernathy as the German Hauptman. He was great "The Great Escape" (he caught Mr. X on the street) and in "Kelly's Heroes"( as the German tank commander) but here he just overacts. Wolfgang Priess does a great Rommel and the rest of the cast is good but just how many prisoners did Burton rescue? At the beginning it looks like fifteen but by the time they reach the cliff guns a whole division has appeared! Anyway a nice bookend if you have the DVD "Tobruk".

I really liked this film. It was a little slow to start, but the acting and action made it worth while. Richard Burton is the in top of his form. I really liked how there were no subtitles to the German speaking parts. (at least on the DVD). It immersed me in the film further, and allowed me to guess what they might be saying via recognizable words and such. Also, it was interesting how they played the more human side of Rommel. A very intriguing story laden with likeable characters. Check this one out.