It has a good cast, some smart writing and a fine fight sequence, but this second world war saga is too unbalanced to pass muster
Tobruk (1967)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: C–
Tobruk is a port on the east of Libya's Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It was a hard-fought prize during the second world war, occupied at different times by Allied and Axis forces.
People
It's September 1942. A Canadian soldier named Major Craig (Rock Hudson) has been taken prisoner by the Italians, and is being shipped to occupied France. At Algiers, he is kidnapped and loaded onto a German plane. Believing he has been taken by the Nazis, Craig stolidly refuses an offer of inflight hot chocolate from the suave Captain Bergman (George Peppard, who – if you grew up in the 80s – is impossible not to see as Hannibal from the A-Team). In fact,...
Tobruk (1967)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: C–
Tobruk is a port on the east of Libya's Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It was a hard-fought prize during the second world war, occupied at different times by Allied and Axis forces.
People
It's September 1942. A Canadian soldier named Major Craig (Rock Hudson) has been taken prisoner by the Italians, and is being shipped to occupied France. At Algiers, he is kidnapped and loaded onto a German plane. Believing he has been taken by the Nazis, Craig stolidly refuses an offer of inflight hot chocolate from the suave Captain Bergman (George Peppard, who – if you grew up in the 80s – is impossible not to see as Hannibal from the A-Team). In fact,...
- 3/21/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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