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Tobruk - Arthur Hiller 1967 [DivX - Ita Esp Eng Fra - Mp3] [TNTvillage]
TOBRUK
Arthur Hiller
(1967)
   
REGIA: Arthur Hiller
SCENEGGIATURA: Leo Gordon
ATTORI: Leo Gordon, Nigel Green, Percy Herbert, Rock Hudson, Heid Hunt, George Peppard,
Liam Redmond, Norman Rossington, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Robert Wolders
FOTOGRAFIA: Russell Harlan
MONTAGGIO: Robert C. Jones
MUSICHE: Bronislau Kaper
PRODUZIONE: GIBRALTER
DISTRIBUZIONE: UNIVERSAL - CIC VIDEO
PAESE: USA 1967
GENERE: Guerra
DURATA: 107 Min
FORMATO: Colore TECHNISCOPE TECHNIcolor
Liberato con un audace colpo di mano, il magg. britannico Donald Craig viene incaricato di guidare, attraverso il deserto libico, una spedizione diretta a Tobruk e incaricata di eliminare il deposito di carburante indispensabile a Rommel per continuare la guerra africana. Della spedizione fanno parte alcuni inglesi, capeggiati dal Col. Harcher, che si travestono da prigionieri, ed un gruppo di israeliti d'origine tedesca che si camuffano da soldati del Terzo Reich e che obbediscono al Cap. Bergman. Il viaggio, nonostante le rivalità dei comandanti e le difficoltà che si incontrano, viene compiuto in tempo utile. Ma a Tobruk la situazione appare in tutta la sua gravità. I tedeschi di guarnigione sono molto piu' numerosi del previsto; la costa è difesa da alcuni imprendibili fortini ed il prezioso deposito di nafta è ben celato nelle viscere d'una collina. Mentre da terra e dal mare inizia la feroce sparatoria, gli uomini di Harcher assaltano i bunker e li distruggono; Craig penetra nel deposito e lo incendia; Bergman ed i suoi appoggiano le diverse azioni con un coraggio disperato. La vittoria arride ancora una volta agli audaci, anche se Harcher deve arrendersi; gli israeliti soccombono, uno dopo l'altro, e il solo Craig, con pochi altri, riesce a salvarsi.
In September 1942, with the troops of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel “90 miles from” the Suez Canal, the staff of the British Eighth Army approve a plan to destroy the German fuel bunkers in Tobruk.
The original author of the plan, Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson) has been captured by Vichy French forces and is interned at the port of Algiers. Craig is a Canadian expert on desert topography, desert exploration, and has extensive practical knowledge of the Sahara, so he is considered essential to the success of the planned raid on Tobruk.
Craig is liberated by Captain Kurt Bergman (George Peppard) of the SIG and some of his men, who are Palestinian Jews. They then join up with the LRDG, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Harker (Nigel Green), at Kufra.
Colonel Harker explains that they have eight days to get to Tobruk, destroy the fuel depot and German field guns protecting the harbor, prior to a scheduled amphibious landing. The plan calls for the LRDG to pose as POWs being escorted by the SIG posing as German soldiers. Harker is antisemitic, which he lets be known to Craig at several points ("A little trust is alright, but there's no point in overdoing it. Six years in Palestine taught me that," Harker says to Craig), hardening Craig to sympathy for Bergman; Craig is noticeably frustrated at Bergman when the Captain seems to simply accept Harker's bigotry and also his seeming disregard for the lives being risked - when Craig asks Bergman why he doesn't speak up in his own defense, Bergman's replay is rejected by Craig ("A dead martyr is just another corpse").
On the way to Tobruk, they encounter a patrol of Italians and Germans and trick them into attacking each other, then they navigate a German minefield before being mistakenly attacked by a British fighter, which destroys both of their radios. When they shoot it down, they are spotted by Tuareg, who request guns.
It is from the Tuareg that group is saddled with two British prisoners, Henry Portman and his daughter Cheryl, who are traveling from Benghazi to Cairo on behalf of Germany. They have papers signed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Mohammad Amin al-Husayni) and German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, on behalf of the Führer, which is an agreement between the Reich and a group of “important” Egyptian army officers, that the Egyptians will rise up against the British in Jihad, a “Holy War”. The movie implies that the Egyptian revolt, similar to the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, could be enough to mobilize the entire Muslim world to fight for Germany. “The Turks alone could put four million men into the war against Russia,” Cheryl Portman pointedly notes to Bergman.
But the Portmans are forced at gunpoint by a mysterious member of the SIG to trek to an underground communication cable in the desert, where they are spotted and shot by Italian soldiers. Bergman and his men retrieve the injured Cheryl and it becomes clear that one of Bergman's men is a traitor. Harker humiliates Bergman by disarming him and having his own men do the same to the SIG (a pointed bit of dialogue ensues between the film's comedic relief characters, Alfie (Norman Rossington) and Dolan (Percy Herbert) when Alfie sneers, "Once a jerry, always a jerry," and Dolan defends the SIG by pointing to Alfie's past as a thief) and giving them two hours to find the traitor. It is believed that the traitor is found when one of Bergman's closest friends, Bruckner, is found stabbed to death in an underground sewer and his suicide tablet is gone, though Bergman isn't convinced.
The group finally reach Tobruk, but discover to their horror that Rommel has amassed reserves of two divisions of tanks undetected by British intelligence. This makes the mission even more important, as Rommel's reserves are enough to conquer Egypt, but the British commandos "have the key" of going after Rommel's underground fuel tanks. In the ensuing battle two of the German harbor guns are blown up and the landing force is turned back, but the commando unit comes under attack from German tanks led by Rommel himself. Bergman and several men use flame throwers to help Harker evacuate some of his men, while Craig, Sergeant Krug, and two others escape and jump a German tank well inland, with which they charge into the distant underground fuel depot.
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