Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Wuchak RELEASED IN 1967 and directed Arthur Hiller, "Tobruk" chronicles events during WWII in Northern Africa when a Canadian major (Rock Hudson) teams-up with British commandos & German Jews to hinder Rommel's Afrika Korps by destroying his major fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya. Nigel Green plays the British colonel while George Peppard appears as the Jewish captain with Guy Stockwell as his subordinate. Jack Watson and Percy Herbert are also on hand.The movie scores high marks with the notable cast, grave ambiance and brutal action, but it's also hindered by hackneyed contrivances, like the eye-rolling trap door and traitor element. But any flaws are redeemed by a literally explosive climax. There's also some commendable human interest and tension in the ethnic prejudice department.THE FILM RUNS 107 minutes and was shot in Arizona (Yuma, Tucson & Mojave Desert) and Imperial County, California. WRITER: Leo Gordon.GRADE: B-

tmkwdi Watched Raid on Rommel and Tobruk consecutively and was startled to see the same scenes and background actors appear in both films. Not re-shot scenes or newsreel footage, but actual duplicate footage in each. The P-40 strafing sequence conclusion is the most obvious, especially in its colorful conclusion, but there are many, many others. Another is an artsy shot of a half-track driver's rear view mirror and subsequent pan to the guy's profile. Same guy as in Tobruk. I know that making a movie is a costly enterprise, but someone went overboard in cutting costs for Raid on Rommel (1971). Anyone else notice this? Of the two films, I would give Tobruk the edge, but Raid on Rommel is nearly "Six of one, half-dozen of another."

bkoganbing The Longest Day started a trend in Hollywood to have big all star cast productions showing with documentary accuracy good accounts of some of the major events of World War II. Other such films like this would be Patton, MacArthur, Midway, and A Bridge Too Far. Note I do not include The Battle of the Bulge in this list.The seesaw struggle for Tobruk would make a great film as the key port city on the North African coast passes from Axis to Allied hands a few times over the 1940-1942 period. But if you're looking for a factional account of that story, this ain't it.What it's about is an allied raid on the fuel bunkers at Tobruk that keep Rommel's panzers going. The idea is that a group of Jewish soldiers who like Paul Newman in Exodus fought in the British army and these are German Jews, led by George Peppard, with appropriate accents and language will disguise themselves as Nazi soldiers. They will escort British 'prisoners' into Tobruk led by Colonel Nigel Green who will blow up the fuel dumps along with a combined naval and air assault. Along for the ride is Rock Hudson, a Canadian major who dreamed up the idea.Well at least they didn't make Rock an American since there no American soldiers in that part of Africa at all. But Canada has always been handy if you want to cast a name American movie star in a British locale. Fortunately it fits the plot situation here.There's action enough for those who like that as I do. But the most interesting part about Tobruk is the relationships between the German Jews and the British. Hudson is the outsider here so he does see both points of view. There is some garden variety anti-Semitism among the British, but it's also tempered with the fact that as Nigel Green puts it, he and others served in Palestine before war in Europe broke out. Nevertheless as Peppard puts it for the first time Jews are acting like a people since the days of Rome. They are going home to where they started post World War II, to Israel before that was a name of a nation. Anyone who wants to start trouble can find them there. Sad to say a whole lot of people have wanted to start trouble for their own reasons.So much battle footage was filmed for Tobruk that four years later it got used in another vastly inferior film, Raid on Rommel.Not a great film Tobruk, but entertaining enough. But hopefully the real whole story of Tobruk will be told.

inspt71-1 *possible spoilers* I thought this was a good action movie even though it is no where near historically accurate. This is just a movie you can't think about and worry about where it is true or not. It's a movie for enjoyment and if you like World War II action movies, I strongly urge you to check this out when ever you can. George Peppard is very good as well as Rock Hudson and the rest of the cast. I thought this movie had good action scenes. Especially the one where the British got two German tank divisions to shoot at each other in order to pass between them. I though the use of the RAF P-40 Warhawk was good even though I didn't like it when the British shot it down even though it was shooting at them first. The Visual Effects are good for the time and are some of the best I've ever scene. Check this movie out. It might be silly but it's worth your time.