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
Otto Reichow
as Gunner (uncredited)
Alfred Zeisler
as von Helmholtz (uncredited)
John Alderson
as Corporal (uncredited)
Frank Baker
as British Officer (uncredited)
Lester Matthews
as Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
Patrick O'Moore
as Jim (uncredited)
Robert Douglas
as General
John Wengraf
as German Doctor (uncredited)
James Mason
as Field Marshal Erwin von Rommel
Torin Thatcher
as Col. Barney White
Patrick Aherne
as English Officer (uncredited)
Charles Davis
as Pete
Charles B. Fitzsimons
as Fire Officer (uncredited)
James O'Hara
as Communications Man (uncredited)
Robert Newton
as Tom Bartlett
Ben Wright
as Mick
Paul Cavanagh
as Colonel (uncredited)
Nicolas Coster
as Medic (uncredited)
Guy Prescott
as Maj. O'Rourke (uncredited)
Jack Raine
as C.I.C. (uncredited)
Chips Rafferty
as Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Noel Drayton
as Captain (uncredited)
John Fraser
as Artillery Man (uncredited)
Gavin Muir
as Captain (uncredited)
Richard Burton
as Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts
Frank Chase
as Commando (uncredited)
Michael Pate
as Capt. Currie (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Charles Tingwell
as Lt. Harry Carstairs
