Best movie of this year hands down!

best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

NOTES: Fox publicity to the contrary, Desmond Young did not narrate the film. Michael Rennie did. Location scenes filmed at Borrego Springs and in the Anza Desert, California. Other screen interpretations of Rommel can be found in Five Graves to Cairo, Hitler, The Longest Day, Foxhole in Cairo, The Night of the Generals, Raid on Rommel, Patton and Desert Patrol. COMMENT: When Rommel - Desert Fox went into production at the end of May 1951, there was an immediate storm of protest, suggestions that the film might be a defense of Fascism, and that it sought to glorify the exploits of one of the chief villains of the Nazi machine. Although Zanuck and his aides issued a plethora of denials, the attack was renewed when the film was released. It presented Rommel as a sincere, courageous soldier who turned against Hitler as a gesture of decency.Although its accuracy of characterization is debatable, the film is quite brilliantly directed. The prologue, which depicts a raid by British commandos on one of Rommel's headquarters, is one of the most exciting sequences ever put on film, and there are two notable touches of mise en scéne: Sir Cedric Hardwicke eluding his shadower at a train terminus; and the scene in which Rommel's jeep is chased by an Allied 'plane - the jeep crashes, and the camera cuts to Rommel's staff, lying in the middle of the road.

(Flash Review)I popped this film on as Rommel is one of the few names I actually know from WWII and a non-American at that. It is the war from Rommel's perspective and talks about how great a tactician he was and how he'd follow the rules of war to the letter. I never really knew he had a part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. A scene more famously known from the movie Vallkarie with Tom Cruise. The film made you feel for him and how his end….was forced. Heavy. Moderately interesting if the topic peeks your interest. It also conveniently tap dances around the Holocaust. Too soon maybe in the early 50's….?

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel (James Mason).I really didn't know much about Rommel going in to this film, and I don't know if I know all that much more coming out of it. Apparently he was British? And he answered to a silly Hitler that seemed liked a caricature of the real thing? I joke, but it is amusing how movies used to make no attempt whatsoever to get people's nationality correct.Beyond that, the film is actually fairly decent because it operates more or less as a one man show for James Mason. And Mason is a joy to watch (and an even bigger joy to listen to). Not a bad story, either, although I am not sure how openly people were calling Hitler "evil" and trying to overthrow him.

This film was made just a few years after World War 2 ended and Rommel's wife acted as a technical consultant which lends an authenticity to the film.Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was respected by the Allies especially with his daring campaign is North Africa but the reality was that he gained knowledge due to the breaking of the coded messages from a British soldier.The disappointment I felt that despite some use of archive footage we never see this side of Rommel, the desert fox.What we get is a stricken soldier fighting ill health and fighting his doubts about Hitler which leads to a tenuous link with the attempt to assassinate Hitler, events which were later dealt with in the Tom Cruise film, Valkyrie.James Mason gives a respectful portrayal of a soldier that was admired in some quarters by his enemies. Its a daring film to be made so soon after the war. There is an early film appearance by future Oscar winner, Jessica Tandy who plays his loyal wife.I felt the film could had been better with more substance and more insight of this tactician of desert warfare.