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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Arabic ( Subtitles ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Hebrew ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Russian ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), Turkish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in CinemaScope and Technicolor in Prince Valiant. Despite the fact that he sports a dutch bob that makes him look like actress Phyllis Kirk, Robert Wagner is quite virile and convincing as the title character. Trained for the Round Table by Sir Gawain (Sterling Hayden), Valiant takes time out to fall in love with the beautiful Princess Aleta (Janet Leigh). The villain of the piece is The Black Knight, aka Sir Brack (top-billed James Mason), who intends to topple King Arthur (Brian Aherne) from his throne, then conquer Valiant's people in Scandia. But Prince Valiant proves a fearsome opponent to the usurping Sir Brack. Sadly, most currently available prints of Prince Valiant have been panned-and-scanned, denying viewers the opportunity to revel in Henry Hathaway's creative utilization of the CinemaScope format. ...Raid on Rommel
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
My mother loves nothing better than a good all action war film. She also likes football which puts her in a minority granny group. So we managed to find this film "Raid On Rommel", which amazingly neither of us had seen. We hoped it might be similar that fine film "The Desert Fox", where James Mason was excellent as Rommel. So we sat down and watched it one afternoon when I should have been working in the garden. By the end we were both as torpid as tortoises gone into hibernation for the winter. In fact watching a hibernating tortoise would have been more interesting. How could a film starring that respected actor Richard Burton, and directed by that stalwart hollywood veteran Henry Hathaway be so soul destroyingly bad.
The film concerns a raid by an elite commando group to destroy shore guns at Tobruk, in order to allow the British navy to enter the harbour and launch an attack in safety. There are a few other issues going on. A pesky female causes some discord and the group is not all one happy little family. Sadly I can't go into any great depth as I had a little doze about halfway through. Mum had quite a long doze. The film was originally intended for TV and tried to cash in on much of the footage from "Tobruk", as has already been mentioned. The penny pinching certainly shows! The support cast is poor and Hathaway seemed to be going through the directorial motions. He died three years later in 1974 and this was one of his last films. Burton just ambles through the film in auto pilot. He doesn't even have the decency to get out of 1st acting gear, and was probably well aware that he was involved in a dud. I guess sometimes an actor just has to grit his teeth and think of the cash, although I can't imagine Burton was that hard up.
This must rank as possibly both Burton's and Hathaway's worst film ever. It is one purely for the war film completist. It isn't even so bad it has got to be good. The Japanese Godzilla films were much better! If you want to get a good nights sleep without the more harmful side effects of sleeping tablets, then I can heartily recommend watching this film just before bed time. Even better than a surfeit of lettuce. As you will see from my reviews I generally err on the generous side with my stars, so I have decided to be consistent and have awarded this debacle a generous 1 star.
The film concerns a raid by an elite commando group to destroy shore guns at Tobruk, in order to allow the British navy to enter the harbour and launch an attack in safety. There are a few other issues going on. A pesky female causes some discord and the group is not all one happy little family. Sadly I can't go into any great depth as I had a little doze about halfway through. Mum had quite a long doze. The film was originally intended for TV and tried to cash in on much of the footage from "Tobruk", as has already been mentioned. The penny pinching certainly shows! The support cast is poor and Hathaway seemed to be going through the directorial motions. He died three years later in 1974 and this was one of his last films. Burton just ambles through the film in auto pilot. He doesn't even have the decency to get out of 1st acting gear, and was probably well aware that he was involved in a dud. I guess sometimes an actor just has to grit his teeth and think of the cash, although I can't imagine Burton was that hard up.
This must rank as possibly both Burton's and Hathaway's worst film ever. It is one purely for the war film completist. It isn't even so bad it has got to be good. The Japanese Godzilla films were much better! If you want to get a good nights sleep without the more harmful side effects of sleeping tablets, then I can heartily recommend watching this film just before bed time. Even better than a surfeit of lettuce. As you will see from my reviews I generally err on the generous side with my stars, so I have decided to be consistent and have awarded this debacle a generous 1 star.
24 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The main problem most people have with this film is that far too many scenes are taken from 1967's Tobruk and to be honest I agree with them. Also, we don't really find out much about most of the soldiers and therefore don't sympathise as much when they bite the dust. It's also very difficult to tell who dies and who doesn't.
However, this film does have several saving graces in my opinion. First of all, this film has several sub-plots that differ from Tobruk, so I wouldn't really call it a rip-off. The film also is quite suspenseful in places. The great Richard Burton also stars, giving the film a commanding feel and finally, having viewed and enjoyed Tobruk, I am delighted to view the great action sequences on DVD, as only Raid On Rommel is available on this format.
If, like me, you are anxiously waiting for Tobruk to be released on DVD and want something to tide you over, give this a watch and make up your own mind about it.
However, this film does have several saving graces in my opinion. First of all, this film has several sub-plots that differ from Tobruk, so I wouldn't really call it a rip-off. The film also is quite suspenseful in places. The great Richard Burton also stars, giving the film a commanding feel and finally, having viewed and enjoyed Tobruk, I am delighted to view the great action sequences on DVD, as only Raid On Rommel is available on this format.
If, like me, you are anxiously waiting for Tobruk to be released on DVD and want something to tide you over, give this a watch and make up your own mind about it.
25 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is a sickeningly obvious copy of 'Tobruk' starring Rock Hudson & George Peppard. So much so that some of the scenes have actually been stolen from 'Tobruk' and edited in to 'Raid on Rommel'.
One of these scenes is George Peppard with a flame thrower that has him being filmed from behind. This then pops up in 'Raid on Rommel' & for those eagle eyed viewers you would ask yourself 'I didn't know A-Teams Hannibal was in this.
One of these scenes is George Peppard with a flame thrower that has him being filmed from behind. This then pops up in 'Raid on Rommel' & for those eagle eyed viewers you would ask yourself 'I didn't know A-Teams Hannibal was in this.
Richard Burton was one of our finest actors, he must have been a bit hard up to have had any connection with this nonsense.
Avoid at all costs or if you don't wish to trust my judgement, like I always say; 'Make sure you keep the reciept'
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Proof that even Richard Burton could do a dud performance
Both director and leading man are on auto-pilot for a film that I presume was made so that some leftover footage from `Tobruk' (1967) could be used up in this film that feels like... Read more
Published 2 months ago by N. Young
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i fount it intriqing and exiting with the actors doing a splended job in a film that kept moving on not knowing what to expect next.
Published 5 months ago by alpines23
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This is one of Burton's best films, with a sterling complex performance combined with thrilling action sequences brilliantly staged by the legendary Hathaway. Read more
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