6.0
“Montgomery's Iron Back 8th Army ... Rommel's Crack Africa Korps ... they met head on and tore the earth apart !”
The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
January 18, 19691h 36mIT
5.3
30 votes
Overview
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!
Director
Giorgio FerroniWhere to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
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N/A
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Production Companies
Zenith CinematograficaLes Films Corona
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5.0This 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 difficult to distinguish between who was who, and on whose side! The dubbing didn't help, either, with the accents all but indistinguishable from each other and the quality of the pr…
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