The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox is a 1951 biographical film about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in the later stages of the Second World War. It stars James Mason in the title role, was directed by Henry Hathaway, and was based on the book Rommel by Brigadier Desmond Young, who served in the Indian Army in North Africa.

After the credits, the story is introduced by narrator Michael Rennie, who dubs the voice of then LieutenantColonel Desmond Young, who plays himself in the film. Young is captured and meets Rommel briefly as a prisoner of war he states that Rommel was not only his enemy at the time, but an enemy of civilisation, and makes it his mission after the war to discover what really happened to Rommel during the final years of his life at the time that Young wrote his book, it was believed that Rommel had died as a result of the wounds he had suffered when an Allied fighter strafed his staff car.The film flashbacks to the period of 194142, as the British prepare to counterattack Egypt, directed by General Bernard Montgomery The Germans are defeated at El Alamein in 1942. The situation is made worse when Rommel is ordered by Adolf Hitler Luther Adler to stand fast and not retreat, even in the face of overwhelming Allied superiority in men and supplies, but the retreat is allowed. Rommel becomes increasingly disillusioned with Hitler after his pleas to evacuate his men are dismissed. An ailing Rommel is sent back to Germany to recuperate while his beloved Afrika Korps is driven back across North Africa and destroyed. ........

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