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A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major German fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major German fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major German fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total
Rico Cattani
- Cpl. Stuhler
- (as Henry Rico Cattani)
Bob Hoy
- British Corporal
- (as Robert Hoy)
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- TriviaThere actually was a raid on Tobruk, 13-14 September 1942, including the German-Jewish SIG and fake British POWs. Unlike the outcome in the movie, "Operation Agreement" was a complete failure.
- GoofsIn one shot a Joshua tree is clearly visible, a plant species only found in the United States.
- Quotes
Cheryl Portman: "Mohnfeld"... Odd name for a German officer?
Lt. Max Mohnfeld: [confused] We can't *all* be named *Schmidt*, Fraulein Portman.
- ConnectionsEdited into Raid on Rommel (1971)
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Often when I see a fondly remembered war film from my childhood I am bitterly disappointed by it as an adult . Not so with TOBRUCK which I recently saw again a few months ago . The explosive action scenes hold up very well today as long as you don't compare them to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BLACK HAWK DOWN but this is a film from 40 years ago . Imagine how effective they must have been on its original release . And aren't they fairly graphic ? So much so that I noticed some of the violence had been edited for its afternoon showing on Scottish Television
One thing I hadn't noticed as a child is how complex the narrative is or smart the dialogue is . There's a couple of subplots one of which is a traitor in the group and of a couple of Nazi sympathisers with documents who want to contact the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in order to bring the Muslim world on to the side of Nazi Germany . Interstingly enough the Nazis were pro Muslim and had at least two Waffen SS divisions composed of Bosnian s and Albanians . In narrative terms the screenplay is not in any way crowded with these two subplots As for the dialogue it switches from comic relief as in:
" what you doing with your fingers in your ears ? "
" I can't stand the sight of blood "
"Close your eyes then "
" But I want to see what's going on "
through to the serious and philosophical:
" I've heard it said there's a bit of a Jew in all of us "
" Ja and there's a bit of the Nazi as well "
You could be very pedantic and state that the German tanks are in fact American tanks dating from the 1950s but every war film from this period suffers from this flaw and very few are as intelligent or complex as TOBRUCK
One thing I hadn't noticed as a child is how complex the narrative is or smart the dialogue is . There's a couple of subplots one of which is a traitor in the group and of a couple of Nazi sympathisers with documents who want to contact the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in order to bring the Muslim world on to the side of Nazi Germany . Interstingly enough the Nazis were pro Muslim and had at least two Waffen SS divisions composed of Bosnian s and Albanians . In narrative terms the screenplay is not in any way crowded with these two subplots As for the dialogue it switches from comic relief as in:
" what you doing with your fingers in your ears ? "
" I can't stand the sight of blood "
"Close your eyes then "
" But I want to see what's going on "
through to the serious and philosophical:
" I've heard it said there's a bit of a Jew in all of us "
" Ja and there's a bit of the Nazi as well "
You could be very pedantic and state that the German tanks are in fact American tanks dating from the 1950s but every war film from this period suffers from this flaw and very few are as intelligent or complex as TOBRUCK
- Theo Robertson
- Feb 14, 2008
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- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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