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Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Tight As A Tick

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    Veteran British infantry captain MacRoberts (Richard Burton, his first scene) is awakened and placed in command of a disheveled Australian unit, meeting an old friend (Robert Newton), North Africa, 1941, in The Desert Rats, 1953.

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Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Tight As A...
Veteran British infantry captain MacRoberts (Richard Burton,...
Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Tight As A Tick
Veteran British infantry captain MacRoberts (Richard Burton, his first scene) is awakened and placed in command of a disheveled Australian unit, meeting an old friend (Robert Newton), North Africa, 1941, in The Desert Rats, 1953.>
Desert Rats, The - (Original Trailer)
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Desert Rats, The - (Original Trailer)
A desperate band of Allied soldiers fights off the Nazis in North Africa.>
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Michael Rennie reads for the bang-up opening of Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953, 20th Century Fox's follow up to The Desert Fox, 1951, which some found overly sympathetic to the German cause.>
Desert Rats, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) That...
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Big action sequence, as MacRoberts (Richard Burton) and Smith (Chips Rafferty) curse Carstairs (Charles Tingwell) for rescuing Currie (Michael Pate), leading to heroism and trouble in North Africa, 1941, in Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953.>
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One of two scenes for James Mason as Field Marshal Rommel (Reprising his role from The Desert Fox, 1951), happening upon captured British infantry officer MacRoberts (Richard Burton) in the medical tent, in Robert Wise's The Desert Rats, 1953.>
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