Rating: NR
Genre: War
Release Date: 05/21/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with laudatory results. He is briefly captured by the Nazis and questioned by General Rommel himself, but Burton escapes to lead his surviving troops to safety. James Mason, who portrayed Rommel in The Desert Fox, makes a guest appearance in the same role in The Desert Rats.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Richard Burton - Capt. MacRoberts
Robert Newton - Bartlett
Robert Douglas - General
James Mason - Rommel
Torin Thatcher - Barney
Chips Rafferty - Smith
Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Lt. Carstairs
Charles Davis - Pete
Ben Wright - Mick
James Lilburn - Communications
John O'Malley - Riley
Ray Harden - Hugh
John Alderson - Corporal
Richard Peel - Rusty
Michael Pate - Captain Currie
Frank Pulaski - Maj. O'Rourke
Charles R. Keane - Sgt. Donaldson
Pat O'Moore - Jim
John Wengraf - German Doctor
Arno Frey - Kramm
Charles Fitzsimmons - Fire Officer

Production:
Robert Wise - Director
Robert L. Jacks - Producer
Leigh Harline Alfred Newman - Composer
Barbara McLean - Editor
Richard Murphy - Screen Writer
Addison Hehr - Art Director
Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer
Ray Kellogg - Special Effects
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director

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