James Mason delivers a strong performance in this title role of this fascinating portrait of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early 1940s, Rommels juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa, But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realisation that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn allegiance, was destroying Germany, his ingrained sense of duty pushed him into a conspiracy against Hitler. Co-starring Jessica Tandy as Rommel's wife and Cedric Hardwicke as another anti-Hitler conspirator, THE DESERT FOX is an intimate look at one of the most respected military tacticians of modern times.