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