𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗜 🚀𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗿𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹💥 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗧𝗼 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿🚀🚀🚀 James Mason is perfectly cast as Erwin Rommel. I would like it if someday they did a more in depth movie on Erwin Rommel and his being killed by order of Adolf Hitler. This movie has a number of excellent actors of the time and a rather young "Richard Boone". Who would star in a great western TV series in a few years after this movie - (Have Gun Will Travel). Boone played the military aid to James Mason/Erwin Rommel in this movie.
Erwin Rommel was one of a group of like minded military leaders in various countries who after World War I, rose to the top of their country's military establishment because they saw the value of the tank in any future war. In 1942 Hitler as he was constantly sending Rommel in to bail out the Italians who up to that point had been running the desert campaign in North Africa. With less men and supplies, his tactical ability bedeviled the Allied command until The Second Battle of El Alamein.
The film starts with Rommel as desert warfare genius and then when he does become ill and is invalided out of North Africa, the Allies regain the initiative and beat his famed Afrika Korps. Rommel is then sent to Western Europe to supervise the defenses on the Atlantic. There comes a point when Rommel does realize that his Fuehrer is destroying his country and becomes involved in the plot to kill him and overthrow the government. That is what most of the film deals with.
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The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel. The film is a Rommel biography written by Lt.Colonel Desmond Young and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson . It's based on true events and real characters . In WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel won reputation as Germany's most popular General but he played an important part in the invasions of central Europe and France . At the same time he was regarded by many Allied officers as a master of desert warfare and as a fair-minded professional . Erwin Rommel (James Mason) really achieved fame as the commander of the German Afrika Korps , operating against the British in North Africa and he captured Tobruk ,the key to the British defenses .
Stars James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Richard Boone
Movie Trivia
Erwin Rommel's widow, Lucie Marie Rommel acted as a technical consultant and adviser to this movie. She was played by Jessica Tandy in the film itself. Mrs. Rommel lent the production some of her husband's personal artifacts and liaised with Nunnally Johnson, the film's producer and screenwriter. As Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, Mrs Rommel later also acted as a military consultant to the film The Longest Day (1962) made by 20th Century-Fox, the same studio that produced this movie.
Rommel opposed the idea of attempting to assassinate Hitler as he believed it would make the Commander-in-Chief a martyr, and also cause a civil war in Germany as the SS would still be in power. It has been alleged he decided Hitler should be assassinated after the Allies had successfully invaded France, but no evidence has been found to support this.