Rating: 
Summary: Timeless
Review: This is a WWII classic featuring tank warfare and strategy with excellent performances by Richard Burton and James Mason. A must see for any war movie buff.
Rating: 
Summary: Stictly run-of-the-mill.
Review: This is just an average black & white war yarn concerning the defense of the fortress of Tolbruk by a limited number of soldiers against the the mechanized force of Rommel.
If the writers of the script would have concentrated wholly on this enterprise, they most likely would have created an exciting, intriguing as well as thoroughly engrossing film. Instead they threw a monkey-wrench into the works by way of adding a completely uncomplementing and utterly useless sub-plot having to do with the drunken cowardice of Captain McRobert's (Richard Burton) former school teacher (Robert Newton), who is now one of McRobert's soldiers.
As a result, we find ourselves taken away from the battle at hand too many times, and forced to watch and listen to this irrelevant hogwash. Much too much film time is wasted here.Also, although Twentieth Century Fox's transfers to DVD are virtually flawless in most cases, this is not one of them. The picture is a bit grainy, and the soundtrack is rather on the tinty side.
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