The Rats of Tobruk is a 1944 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. An abridged version was released in the United States in 1951 as The Fighting...
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stars Richard Burton, James Mason, and Robert Newton. The film's storyline concerns the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 North Africa during World War II. German field...
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Tobruk is a 1967 American drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard. The film was written by Leo Gordon (who...
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besieged in the North African port of Tobruk by German and Italian forces. The tenacious defenders quickly became known as the Rats of Tobruk. After 231...
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Desert rat (redirect from Desert rats)
loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II The Rats of Tobruk, nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege...
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The Lighthorsemen (1987) How we Beat the Emden (1915) The Overlanders (1946) Australia (2008) The Rats of Tobruk (1944) - with final sequences in New...
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The title of the program refers to the nicknames given to some of the British Commonwealth forces in the North African campaign (Rats of Tobruk, the primarily...
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numerous singing appearances and playing the female lead in The Rats of Tobruk (1944). She was the daughter of famed singer Strella Wilson and changed...
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facilities Australia Has Wings (1941) – short Whose War Is It? (1943) The Rats of Tobruk (1944) – investor A Son Is Born (1946) – built sets "COMPANY NEWS"...
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Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. Axis troops of the Panzerarmee Afrika (Generaloberst...
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(1943) The Way Ahead (1944) The Rats of Tobruk (1944) The Desert Fox (1951) Bright Victory (1951) The Desert Rats (1953) The Malta Story (1953) Folgore...
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Total number of nominations given to films: 10,531 Total number of Oscars awarded: 2,216 (57 honorary and 2,159 competitive) If a film won the Academy Award...
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February 1967 1 February The Ballad of Josie 3 February The Corrupt Ones (West Germany)/(Italy)/ (France) 7 February Tobruk 8 February Monkeys, Go Home...
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This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative. There is a separate list of World War II...
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George Wallace (Australian comedian) (category Australian film studio executives)
dramatic films, The Rats of Tobruk (Charles Chauvel, 1944, Australia) and Wherever She Goes (Michael Gordon, 1953, USA/Australia). The five feature films Wallace...
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Marjorie Main The Rats of Tobruk (aka The Fighting Rats of Tobruk), starring Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty – (Australia) The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice...
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Chips Rafferty (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
was reunited with Chauvel and Grant Taylor in The Rats of Tobruk (1944), an attempt to repeat the success of Forty Thousand Horsemen.[citation needed] Rafferty...
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Erwin Rommel (redirect from The Desert Fox (nickname))
through the sand. Cyrenaica was captured by 8 April, except for the port city of Tobruk, which was besieged on 11 April. The siege of Tobruk was not technically...
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is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany during the 1960s. For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see Category:West...
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(1940) The Rats of Tobruk (1944) The Adventures of Long John Silver (1955) - recurring role G'day Digger! (1958) Bungala Boys (1961) The Drifting Avenger...
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Peter Finch (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
(1943), the latter for Ken G. Hall. He also appeared in two of the few Australian feature films made during the war, The Rats of Tobruk (1944) and the less...
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The Battle of Bir Hakeim (Arabic pronunciation: [biʔr ħaˈkiːm] ) took place at Bir Hakeim, an oasis in the Libyan desert south and west of Tobruk, during...
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list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative...
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Gone to the Dogs (1939) Come Up Smiling (1939) Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939) Dad Rudd, MP (1940) 40,000 Horsemen (1940) The Rats of Tobruk (1944) Smithy...
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featured the band and the members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band on the back of a flatbed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne. The video was...
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The Wake Of The Bounty, 40,000 Horsemen and The Rats Of Tobruk Hugh Cornish – television executive David McCormack – Lead singer of the band Custard...
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Charles Chauvel (filmmaker) (redirect from Charles Chauvel (film maker))
success with The Rats of Tobruk in 1944. It was not as successful. After the war he made a film about a pioneer family in Queensland, Sons of Matthew (1949)...
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Elsa Chauvel (category Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
She later co-wrote the screenplays for Rangle River (1937), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), The Rats of Tobruk (1944), Sons of Matthew (1949) and Jedda...
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T.N.T. (album) (redirect from The Jack)
the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)". Filmed on 23 February 1976, the video featured the band's then-current lineup, along with members of the Rats of...
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film concerning the Siege of Tobruk in 1941 North Africa during World War II Destination Gobi (1953) – war drama film about the Sino-American Cooperative...
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