The Battle of El Alamein

Original title: La battaglia di El Alamein

1969
PG
1h 45m

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World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.

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El Alamein

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Trivia
The opening prologue states: "June 1942. As Gen. Erwin Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Benito Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!"

Goofs
The British were using M113 personnel carriers. The M113 personnel carrier was not introduced until some 20 years after the Battle of El Alamein.

Quotes
Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery: [addressing his staff officers] I'm taking over command of the Eighth Army. I had best tell you immediately what I think; they'll be no more retreating. I want all the plans for pulling back prepared by my predecessor to be burned. I want all non-operative vehicles returned to the rear lines. No one will be moving out of here. We're staying on, dead or alive, until Rommel surrenders. That's all for the moment.

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Edited into The War Devils (1969)

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anachronistic military hardware and tactics

British forces are seen attacking with armored personnel carriers developed after the war. The M113 APCs were first fielded by the US in 1960 and were adopted by many other armies in the Free World. The boxy shapes of their aluminum hulls are unmistakable to any G.I. like me who served in Vietnam. By this time in the war, the British were well aware of the need to have their infantry attack with their armor to keep enemy infantry from doing what the Italian soldiers are shown doing in the last battle: swarming over the tanks and taking them out with anti-tank mines and Molotov cocktails. Still this is a fairly good movie, one worth watching.