While a soldier covers his ears because he can't stand the sight of blood, his pal asks why he doesn't cover his eyes instead. He replies, "I want to see what's going on, don't I?" When a war movie is confusing, boring, devoid of any characters you sink your heart into, and relies more on comic relief than special effects, you know you're in trouble. Tobruk is one of the war movies that give the rest of the genre a bad name, and one of the reasons I thought I didn't like war movies for most of my life.
When Rock Hudson is rescued from a POW camp in North Africa, he thinks he's saved. When George Peppard is his rescuer, complete with a German accent, he thinks he's sunk. When George turns out to be a good guy and part of a special unit of German Jewish soldiers who have volunteered to help the British, he's slightly wary. Together, the British soldiers, the Germans who may or may not be bad guys, and Rock Hudson as a Canadian-because we've all heard his attempts at accents in previous movies-have to work together in the desert to complete some mission that takes an awfully long time to happen.
Basically, if you love war movies and can't believe a bad one has ever been made, you can rent this one to prove your hypothesis wrong. You can also rent it if you're having trouble sleeping, if you're interested in hearing a shameless copy of Miklos Rozsa's standard themes, or if you want to check out George Peppard's and Guy Stockwell's German accents.
When Rock Hudson is rescued from a POW camp in North Africa, he thinks he's saved. When George Peppard is his rescuer, complete with a German accent, he thinks he's sunk. When George turns out to be a good guy and part of a special unit of German Jewish soldiers who have volunteered to help the British, he's slightly wary. Together, the British soldiers, the Germans who may or may not be bad guys, and Rock Hudson as a Canadian-because we've all heard his attempts at accents in previous movies-have to work together in the desert to complete some mission that takes an awfully long time to happen.
Basically, if you love war movies and can't believe a bad one has ever been made, you can rent this one to prove your hypothesis wrong. You can also rent it if you're having trouble sleeping, if you're interested in hearing a shameless copy of Miklos Rozsa's standard themes, or if you want to check out George Peppard's and Guy Stockwell's German accents.