movie TOBRUK

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

forgive us Hanno, we are showing our ages again, brain cells are frazzled more each day , at an alarming rate

That's allright Mike.

Best thing of frazzled brain cells is that you can make new friends every day

[Little Jo]

Hi All

There were a number of films made with the name TOBRUK, including the movie starring Rock Hudson, George Peppard. Guy Stockwell and Nigel Green. This was a good movie where a convoy of British and German Jewish commandos, in German Afrika Korp uniforms cross 800 Miles of Libyan Desert to blow up a Nazi fortress at Tobruk. Rock Hudson plays the part of a Canadian officer rescued from a prison ship to go along on the raid. The movie is supposed to be based on a real life Little-known incident. There was another similar movie starring Richard Burton, in this movie there were some exact battles scenes used. The Rock Hudson version was a better movie. If you get a chance to see the movie do so it is worth it. There was another movie "Play Dirty" with Michael Cain also worth watching if you are interested in LRDG type movies.

Cheers

Tony