🎥 The Desert Fox - 1951 - James Mason - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

✅ The Story ...

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In November 1941 a British commando unit deploys from a submarine off the North African coast. Its mission is to raid the headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and assassinate the “Desert Fox”.

There are heavy casualties on both sides, but Rommel is not among them. He is recovering from nasal diphtheria in a hospital in Germany.

A phone call from Adolf Hitler promptly returns him to his Afrika Korps command, with the British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery poised to counterattack the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein. Without adequate supplies, weapons, fuel, or men, Rommel is ordered by Hitler to hold fast and fight to the last man.

He questions the outrageous directive, initially attributing it to the “clowns“ surrounding Hitler in Berlin, and demands it be re-transmitted again. Receiving the same message, he crumples it with the intention of disregarding the command.

Rommel again falls ill and is returned to Germany, where he is hospitalized. An old family friend, Dr Karl Strölin, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, visits him to request he joins a group of dissidents plotting to overthrow Hitler. Rommel strongly resists.

After his recuperation, Rommel is transferred to Western Europe, where he is placed in charge of completing the Atlantic Wall. After inspection, he realises its defences are inadequate to protect against an Allied invasion. He and his superior, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, are handicapped by Hitler's astrology-based belief that the real invasion will come at Calais.

As a result, the D-Day landings at Normandy are successful, and a broad beachhead is secured. Hitler then compounds his error by refusing to release troops and tanks desperately needed to halt the Allies and again forbids an orderly retreat to set up a strong defence in depth.

Rommel then risks broaching the topic of a conspiracy against Hitler with von Rundstedt. The older man refuses to commit but wishes Rommel success with the plot, indicating he expects Rommel to be named his successor within 24 hours.

Immediately after, Rommel is seriously injured when his staff car is strafed by an Allied plane; once again he spends an extended recuperation at home.

On July 20 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg plants a bomb at Hitler's feet during a meeting of the general staff at the Wolf's Lair. It detonates with severe casualties, but Hitler survives.

The story continues to unfold ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Henry Hathaway
Screenplay by : Nunnally Johnson
Based on : Rommel: The Desert Fox by Desmond Young
Produced by : Nunnally Johnson
Narrated by : Michael Rennie
Cinematography : Norbert Brodine
Edited by : James B. Clark
Music by : Daniele Amfitheatrof
Colour Process : Black and white
Production Company : 20th Century Fox
Distributed by : 20th Century Fox
Release Date : October 17, 1951

✅ Cast :

James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Rommel
Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. Karl Strölin
Jessica Tandy as Frau Lucie Rommel
Luther Adler as Adolf Hitler
Everett Sloane as General Wilhelm Burgdorf
Leo G. Carroll as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
George Macready as General Fritz Bayerlein
Richard Boone as Captain Hermann Aldinger
Eduard Franz as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Desmond Young as Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Young
Michael Rennie Narrator
Paul Cavanagh as Lt. Col. Caesar von Hofacker
John Hoyt as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Walter Kingsford as Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge
John Goldsworthy as General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desert_Fox:_The_Story_of_Rommel

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