The Desert Rats.
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✎ Suggest a correctionAllied general chooses British Captain "Tammy" MacRoberts (Richard Burton) to take command of a company of untried Australian troops. He is surprised to see in their ranks his former schoolmaster, Tom Bartlett (Robert Newton) Bartlett, an alcoholic, later explains that after being dismissed from his job in Britain due to his drinking, he went to Australia and joined the army while intoxicated.
Credits
- Directed by
- Robert Wise
- Written by
- Richard Murphy
- Cast
- Alfred Zeisler, Richard Burton, James Mason, Bud Tingwell, Michael Pate, Torin Thatcher, Lester Matthews, John Fraser, Robert Newton, Gavin Muir, Peter J. Ortiz, John Alderson, Patrick O'Moore, Chips Rafferty, John Wengraf, Michael Rennie, Robert Douglas, Nicolas Coster …
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Music
- Leigh Harline
- Edited by
- Barbara McLean
Copyright
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 6May53; LP2605.
Complete catalog record
THE DESERT RATS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1953. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 6May53; LP2605.
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