Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Overrated and overhyped

Just perfect...

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

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."

Often when I see a fondly remembered war film from my childhood I am bitterly disappointed by it as an adult . Not so with TOBRUCK which I recently saw again a few months ago . The explosive action scenes hold up very well today as long as you don't compare them to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or BLACK HAWK DOWN but this is a film from 40 years ago . Imagine how effective they must have been on its original release . And aren't they fairly graphic ? So much so that I noticed some of the violence had been edited for its afternoon showing on Scottish Television One thing I hadn't noticed as a child is how complex the narrative is or smart the dialogue is . There's a couple of subplots one of which is a traitor in the group and of a couple of Nazi sympathisers with documents who want to contact the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in order to bring the Muslim world on to the side of Nazi Germany . Interstingly enough the Nazis were pro Muslim and had at least two Waffen SS divisions composed of Bosnian s and Albanians . In narrative terms the screenplay is not in any way crowded with these two subplots As for the dialogue it switches from comic relief as in: " what you doing with your fingers in your ears ? " " I can't stand the sight of blood " "Close your eyes then " " But I want to see what's going on " through to the serious and philosophical: " I've heard it said there's a bit of a Jew in all of us " " Ja and there's a bit of the Nazi as well " You could be very pedantic and state that the German tanks are in fact American tanks dating from the 1950s but every war film from this period suffers from this flaw and very few are as intelligent or complex as TOBRUCK

When the well-armed Allied heroes aren't shooting, stabbing, and blowing up their Axis adversaries in Arthur Hiller's "Tobruk," they are at each other's throats in this exciting World War II action-adventure opus set behind enemy lines in the Sahara desert during 1942. "Tobruk" doesn't rank as the greatest W.W.II military thriller, but this widescreen Universal Studios production is definitely a splendid way to blow off 110 minutes. You can tell that this Rock Hudson & George Peppard war epic was filmed after World War II ended because the story features an elite German-Jewish commando squad sanctioned by the British. No World War II movie made during the actual war would have dared present such an undercover outfit because most studios shunned anything that concerned Jewish characters. For example, government propagandists in the Office of War Information/Bureau of Motion Pictures severely criticized Warner Brothers for their 1944 movie "Mr. Skeffington" because the agency felt it played into the hands of Axis propagandists and their anti-Jewish sentiments. Another reason is that the heroes wield a flame thrower, a devastating weapon that barbecues the opposition, as unsavory a way to kill as it was to die, and the OWI/BMP as well as Hollywood's Production Code Administration would have condemned it because of its graphic nature. Neither agency felt that the public was prepared to watch this kind of horrendous combat. Furthermore, the government propagandists and the PCA would never have countenanced the strife among the Allies; this would have shown the Allies in a negative light and all war movies were designed to boost morale. Casting aspersions against our Allies would never have flown in any movie. Finally, Rock Hudson's heroic protagonist Major Craig is anything but a hero of the World War II era variety. Craig warns his commanding officer Colonel Harker before the raid: "My mother didn't raise any heroes." "Tobruk" opens with this narration: "North Africa . . . September 1942. The darkest hours. The world watches as Adolf Hitler's high stepping Afrika Korps sweep onward to Egypt and the Suez Canal while the British—their strength dissipated by defeat—make a desperate attempt to regroup at El Alamein." History in a nutshell! The British want to deprive German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel of fuel for his Afrika Korps tank units. Before the British can accomplish this mission, they have to rescue a Canadian, Major Daniel Craig (Rock Hudson of "Hornet's Nest") from a Vicky French P.O.W. camp. Earlier, Craig had proposed his plan for the destruction of Rommel's fuel supplies, but the narrow-minded English High Command led by Colonel Harker (Nigel Green of "The Ipcress File") rejected it out of hand. An elite squad of German Jews sympathetic to the Allied cause masquerade as Nazis and snatch Craig from the French and then fly him back to North Africa for a rendezvous in the desert with Colonel Harker. Craig isn't sure about which side Captain Bergman (George Peppard of "The Blue Max") is on until he lands at an Allied base. Harker briefs Craig and Bergman about a proposed raid on the underground German fuel bunkers in Tobruk. Although the Royal Air Force has been hammering Rommel, Harker explains that too much fuel is still getting through to the Desert Fox. Harker uses Berman's pseudo German troops to escort a party of raiders disguised as P.O.W.s and Craig will guide them across 800 miles of the worst desert that the Sahara can offer. Craig criticizes the plan, "It's suicide!" Harker proclaims as a rebuttal: "It's orders!" Our heroes have several minor encounters with the enemy. First, they trick nearby encampments of Italian and German troops to fire on each other while they slip past them. Second, they plunge into a German mind field at considerable peril to themselves to dissuade Axis pursuit. Third, they encounter a native tribe that sells them two British subjects, a father and daughter working for the Nazi, for ten rifles. The father, Henry Portman (Liam Redmond of "Barry Lyndon"), has a special message called the Kesselring document about a group of dissent generals in the Egyptian Army who are plotting to attack the British. Eventually, Portman and his daughter die through misadventure and we learn that a traitor walks among Captain Bergman's men. Not long afterward, our heroes cruise into Tobruk with a German police escort. They discover to their shock that two reserve divisions of the Afrika Korps are relaxing in Tobruk. Our heroes scramble to warn Her Majesty's Royal Naval assault troops to cease and desist. Craig and Bergman silence the big guns at Mesa Cove and Craig appropriates a German tank and destroys the underground fuel bunkers. Bergman dies in a burst a flame on the background. The German spy emerges at the finale and Colonel Harker shoots him before he is shot by the Germans. Major Craig and three survivors escape and make it to a Royal Navy pick-up farther up the coast.Arthur Hiller makes certain that we are never in the dark about what is going to happen. Leo V. Gordon's tightly written script provides a wealth of exposition. Hiller takes the starch out of some typical war movie scenes. Instead of staging the briefing in full uniform in a tent, Hiller has the commanding officer brief Hudson and Peppard while he is taking a shower. He conducts the remainder of the briefing without a shirt. "Tobruk" is undoubtedly the first World War II movie where Jews are action heroes and their British commanding officer above Peppard questions their trustworthiness. Hudson is adamantly an anti-hero, but he handles the flame thrower well and he knows out to steal a German tank with a dud hand grenade. There's lots of crisp interesting dialogue in this explosive, action-packed tale about heroes. Hudson makes a good level-headed hero, while Peppard wins our hearts with his bravado, especially in his death scene.

After an unpleasant birthday party for my future father in law, my girl friend and I went to my house to watch tv. On A&E they had this interesting WW 2 movie. I do not know how realistic it is, but it sure has an entertaining story. Undercover German Jews, British special forces, and a mole have too execute a black bag operation. Pretty cool, to watch George Peppard run around with a flame thrower. Not the usually sloppy acting for a 60's ww 2 movie. 7/10