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Summary: Raid On Rommel with Sir Ricard Burton
Review: An explosive film Richard Burton and Star Trek villain John Colicos play British intelligence officers who attack German desert defenses in this 1971 film. The best battle scenes are toward the end of the film when Burton's character sets the base aflame with his tanks and flame-throwers. It was exciting to see him a realistic action hero. There were no Stallone like scenes with him out fighting the enemy. He was more clever and deceptive in making the Nazi's believe he was one of them. They discovered that he wasn't the man he presented himself to be far too late. He led the Nazi's to think he was treating his soldiers for Typhoid fever. John Colicos role was that of a supporting actor to Burton. It made me realize that he had a lot more talent than given credit for. I wish he had more dialogue with Burton other than taking orders and following the leader.
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Summary: Raid On Rommel with Sir Ricard Burton
Review: An explosive film Richard Burton and Star Trek villain John Colicos play British intelligence officers who attack German desert defenses in this 1971 film. The best battle scenes are toward the end of the film when Burton's character sets the base aflame with his tanks and flame-throwers. It was exciting to see him a realistic action hero. There were no Stallone like scenes with him out fighting the enemy. He was more clever and deceptive in making the Nazi's believe he was one of them. They discovered that he wasn't the man he presented himself to be far too late. He led the Nazi's to think he was treating his soldiers for Typhoid fever. John Colicos role was that of a supporting actor to Burton. It made me realize that he had a lot more talent than given credit for. I wish he had more dialogue with Burton other than taking orders and following the leader.
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Summary: Fair WWII Movie
Review: Granted this Movie is not up to Saving Private Ryan Standards, but it has a good plot and the action is decent. I would never pay 17 bucks for it though( I got it for 7 on DVD from Wal Mart). If you can get it cheap buy it. If not,forget it!
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Summary: Fair World War II Action/Adventure Film
Review: In 1966, Universal Studios made the film "Tobruk" starring Rock Hudson. Five years later, they made this film with Richard Burton which, for all practical purposes, is the same film. In fact, a fair amount of the action footage was lifted from "Tobruk." If you have never seen "Tobruk," you might enjoy this film; if you have seen "Tobruk," you will probably be disappointed. As far as I am aware, "Tobruk" has not been released on DVD, although I have seen it on VHS. Frankly, "Raid on Rommel" reminds me of an extended episode of the old "Rat Patrol" TV series that played in the late 1960s. It's not a terrible film, it's just not distinguished. The Goodtimes DVD is somewhat surprisingly presented in widescreen format. Goodtimes has been inconsistent with their catalog of films that they have licensed from Universal. Some of their DVDs are presented widescreen, others are not. I did not expect this film to be presented widescreen, but I did expect the mono soundtrack and that's what you get here. There are no extras save for subtitles in English, French and Spanish and 18 chapter breaks. There are a few longer passages in German that could have used subtitles but, curiously, are not.
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Summary: Fair World War II Action/Adventure Film
Review: In 1966, Universal Studios made the film "Tobruk" starring Rock Hudson. Five years later, they made this film with Richard Burton which, for all practical purposes, is the same film. In fact, a fair amount of the action footage was lifted from "Tobruk." If you have never seen "Tobruk," you might enjoy this film; if you have seen "Tobruk," you will probably be disappointed. As far as I am aware, "Tobruk" has not been released on DVD, although I have seen it on VHS. Frankly, "Raid on Rommel" reminds me of an extended episode of the old "Rat Patrol" TV series that played in the late 1960s. It's not a terrible film, it's just not distinguished. The Goodtimes DVD is somewhat surprisingly presented in widescreen format. Goodtimes has been inconsistent with their catalog of films that they have licensed from Universal. Some of their DVDs are presented widescreen, others are not. I did not expect this film to be presented widescreen, but I did expect the mono soundtrack and that's what you get here. There are no extras save for subtitles in English, French and Spanish and 18 chapter breaks. There are a few longer passages in German that could have used subtitles but, curiously, are not.
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Summary: Fair World War II Action/Adventure Film
Review: In 1966, Universal Studios made the film "Tobruk" starring Rock Hudson. Five years later, they made this film with Richard Burton which, for all practical purposes, is the same film. In fact, a fair amount of the action footage was lifted from "Tobruk." If you have never seen "Tobruk," you might enjoy this film; if you have seen "Tobruk," you will probably be disappointed. As far as I am aware, "Tobruk" has not been released on DVD, although I have seen it on VHS. Frankly, "Raid on Rommel" reminds me of an extended episode of the old "Rat Patrol" TV series that played in the late 1960s. It's not a terrible film, it's just not distinguished. The Goodtimes DVD is somewhat surprisingly presented in widescreen format. Goodtimes has been inconsistent with their catalog of films that they have licensed from Universal. Some of their DVDs are presented widescreen, others are not. I did not expect this film to be presented widescreen, but I did expect the mono soundtrack and that's what you get here. There are no extras save for subtitles in English, French and Spanish and 18 chapter breaks. There are a few longer passages in German that could have used subtitles but, curiously, are not.
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Summary: I Can Not Believe that Henry Hathaway Directed this Movie
Review: It is almost inconceivable that a director of the stature of Henry Hathaway even got involved with this project. THE DESERT FOX, CALL NORTHSIDE 777, TRUE GRIT, 13 RUE MADELEINE, THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER, NEVADA SMITH, THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS, GARDEN OF EVIL and HOW THE WEST WAS WON are just some of the great films directed by Henry Hathaway. This film hardly deserves to be listed with this director's complete body of work. Henry Hathaway had a history of creating great emotion and energy from the images he created for the screen. RAID ON ROMMEL stars Richard Burton. Basically it looks like Burton and the rest of the cast filmed their speaking parts separately. The rest of the film looks like it was made entirely from stock footage taken exclusively from TOBRUK which starred Rock Hudson a few years earlier. Ingeniously editing the new speaking scenes with the stock action footage from TOBRUK the producers ended up with RAID ON ROMMEL. The producers almost pulled it off unless you are one of the many people that saw TOBRUK because that footage was pretty impressive action filmmaking.
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Summary: For the love of all that is good do not see !
Review: My friend gave this DVD to me,
Upon reflection I think he did it just to make me mad.
Where shall I start ... tanks which for the majority of which look nothing like the actual German ones. The actor who plays Rommel looks NOTHING like him. The uniform Rommel wears does not match any recorded one I know of in Africa during WW2. Plot about as thin as an atom and much less substance to it.
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Summary: Okay...but not great....
Review: Raid on Rommel doesn't quite make it to the top-tier of WWII movies, for a number of reasons. Still the movie is interesting and might be worth seeing. The movies problems cover the complete spectrum -- editing, acting, plot, and the characterization of Rommel. I was also a little disappointed in that the action centered around a fixed gun emplacement -- with Rommel I was expecting a conflict involving mobility and mobile armor. Still, Richard Burton is always a draw. And if you like old WWII flicks it might be worth seeing.
Rating:
Summary: Okay...but not great....
Review: Raid on Rommel doesn't quite make it to the top-tier of WWII movies, for a number of reasons. Still the movie is interesting and might be worth seeing. The movies problems cover the complete spectrum -- editing, acting, plot, and the characterization of Rommel. I was also a little disappointed in that the action centered around a fixed gun emplacement -- with Rommel I was expecting a conflict involving mobility and mobile armor. Still, Richard Burton is always a draw. And if you like old WWII flicks it might be worth seeing.
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