ShangLuda Admirable film.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Spikeopath Tobruk, just over 100 minutes of machismo and bravado, and of course a little history re-writing. Directed by Arthur Hiler and written by Leo Gordon, who also appears in pic, plot essentially finds an assemblage of British and German-Jewish commandos battling each others beliefs as they battle all and sundry en-route to try and destroy Erwin Rommel's fuel supply. Problems mount up, people do die, and there's a traitor in the midst to keep the mystery spicy.It's in many ways a classically old fashioned war movie yarn, the clichés not bothersome at all. Production wise the value is mixed, with irritating back lot and back screen projection work off set by Russell Harlan's Technicolor/Techniscope photography around the Almería vistas in Spain. The action scenes are what deliver the best rewards, well except maybe the performance of the wonderfully ebullient Nigel Green and George Peppard's emotionally challenged German-Jew, who both outshine leading man Rock Hudson. In fact some of the action scenes were used again in Richard Burton starrer Raid On Rommel four years later.Characters and inner conflicts are not fully formed, but the suspense and colourful guts of it all ensures the piece is always good value for the war movie observers. 7/10

Robert J. Maxwell Not a bad war film as these things go. Decent production values, nice attention to wardrobe, effective location shooting, and a couple of professional performances add up to a watchable movie along the lines of "The Guns of Navaron." A group of British Commandos and Jewish Special Servic Forces kidnap a Canadian officer, Hudson, to guide them through the desert in an attempt to destroy Rommel's fuel depot at Tobruk.The mission succeeds of course and an impending disaster by British forces is aborted. Most of the men die but a handful, including Hudson, manage to escape.It's not really worth going on about. The direction is by Arthur Hiller and is professionally competent. The story was written by Leo Gordon, who has given himself a small role as one of the raiders. Nigel Green as the Commando Colonel gives his usual compellingly hammy performance. The plot is a bit complicated. As in "The Guns of Navaron" and "Where Eagles Dare," there is a traitor in the group. If you can't pick him out after a few lines, you get no better than a D Plus in this course.George Peppard, born in Detroit, plays Bergman, the German Jew who speaks flawless German. The chief weakness in his performance is that he does not speak flawless German. My own command of German has deteriorated over the years into a kind of influence over it, but when Peppard gives an order like "Vorwarts!" (I had to leave out an umlaut) and it comes out as "Forvards!", even I have to wince.The climax is explosive and brutal, as it must be in a film like this.

Daniel Britten The interplay between the 3 groups of allied soldiers, the stiff upper lipped British colonel,the independent Canadian major (Hudson) and the German Jews is interesting, if bordering on slightly racist at times. But then that's the point. Political correctness would prevent such a point being made nowadays, but it brings out the fact that the so-called allies were often allied in name only, and the fact that anti-semitism was more widespread than people realize. The fraught relationship between Green and Hudson adds an extra frisson, and is very reminiscent of that between William Holden and Jack Hawkins in Bridge on the River Quai.Pity all of this had to take second place at the end to lots of standard WW2 heroics and blowing up. One more thing - it's not Dean Stockwell. It's Guy, his lesser-known brother.

mm-39 After an unpleasant birthday party for my future father in law, my girl friend and I went to my house to watch tv. On A&E they had this interesting WW 2 movie. I do not know how realistic it is, but it sure has an entertaining story. Undercover German Jews, British special forces, and a mole have too execute a black bag operation. Pretty cool, to watch George Peppard run around with a flame thrower. Not the usually sloppy acting for a 60's ww 2 movie. 7/10