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The Battle of El Alamein

Montgomery's Iron Back 8th Army ... Rommel's Crack Africa Korps ... they met head on and tore the earth apart !

5.2(31)19691h 36m1

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!

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Italian
  • tank
  • north africa

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France, Italy

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG1 Jan 1971
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical9 Nov 1981
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical14 Apr 1972
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical21 May 1969
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1616 Jan 1970
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical23 Jan 1969
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical11 Feb 1969
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical22 Jan 1970
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical8 Sept 1969
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical9 Oct 1969
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical18 Jan 1969
  • TürkiyeTR

    • Theatrical2 Mar 1970

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The Battle of El Alamein was released on 18 January 1969.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/21/2022

    5/10

    This could have been interesting, because it takes the perspective of the Italian troops charged by Mussolini with the capture of Alexandria in the 1942 North African campaign. It has a stab at drafting in an internationally recognised cast - Michael Rennie is Field Marshal Montgomery, and Robert Hossein features sparingly as Rommel, but for the most part this consists of a mediocre cast that I found made it quite di…

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