The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

Directors

Henry Hathaway

Cast

James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll

The story

In November 1941, a British commando unit raids the headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, unaware that the target of their assassination attempt is recovering from nasal diphtheria in Germany. A phone call from Adolf Hitler prompts Rommel's return to the Afrika Korps. The British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery is poised to counterattack the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.

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