The Desert Rats
The Desert Rats
Release: 1953-03-26
·Runtime: 88m
·★ 6.3
War
Action
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Patrick Aherne
as English Officer (uncredited)
Michael Pate
as Capt. Currie (uncredited)
James Mason
as Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
Noel Drayton
as Captain (uncredited)
Patrick O'Moore
as Jim (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
John Fraser
as Artillery Man (uncredited)
John Wengraf
as German Doctor (uncredited)
Charles B. Fitzsimons
as Fire Officer (uncredited)
Torin Thatcher
as Col. Barney White
Ben Wright
as Mick
Nicolas Coster
as Medic (uncredited)
Richard Burton
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
Robert Newton
as Tom Bartlett
Chips Rafferty
as Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Charles Tingwell
as Lt. Harry Carstairs
Paul Cavanagh
as Colonel (uncredited)
Frank Chase
as Commando (uncredited)
Gavin Muir
as Captain (uncredited)
John Alderson
as Corporal (uncredited)
Alfred Zeisler
as von Helmholtz (uncredited)
Robert Douglas
as General
Lester Matthews
as Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
James O'Hara
as Communications Man (uncredited)
Guy Prescott
as Maj. O'Rourke (uncredited)
Jack Raine
as C.I.C. (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
as Gunner (uncredited)
Charles Davis
as Pete
Frank Baker
as British Officer (uncredited)
