The Desert Rats Page #7

Synopsis: Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk, held by a vastly out numbered force of Australian troops. Richard Burton leads these troops on daring raids against Rommel, keeping him off balance as they earn the nickname 'The Desert Rats'.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Robert Wise
Actors: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas
Production: Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
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Year:
1953
88 min
115 Views

What's the matter with you?

l ordered you to get these men out.

- Where's Bartlett? l'll have him...

- He told us.

But it don't make no difference.

The men won't go.

We ain't going either.

Won't go?

l, uh...

Where's Bartlett?

He went out to the forward

position, sir. Alone.

- (siren)

- That'll be him.

- Barrage! Barrage!

- Come on!

Barrage!

(bombing in distance)

ln there!

Fix bayonets!

Come out of your holes, you desert rats!

Let's go! You!

- You!

- (Smith) Come on! This is it!

(MacRoberts) Come on! Fix bayonets!

Get out of your holes, you desert rats!

You go! Come on! You, you!

(bagpipes in distance)

What's that?

(cheering)

What about Bartlett?

Hey!

(narrator) So, after 242 days

ended the siege of Tobruk.

Not the biggest action of the war

and far from the last,

but one in which a sweating, dirty,

hopelessly outnumbered garrison,

by its stubborn courage,

won for itself an unforgettable place

in the world's history of battles.

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